[mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2006/7/31, Chris Bransden <chris at whenironsattack.com>:
> On 30/07/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmm, I gather you don't have any argument, except that it "hurts your
> > eyes".
>
> well, isn't that the argument for any capitalisation rule? language is
> a tricky subject and i doubt any has a nice set of rules agreed upon
> by all who speak it. certainly not a lot of english people capilise
> properly, but there is a (largely) recognised way of doing it, if you
> care.
>
> > In other words, you are so used to seeing things written that
> > way that writing it in another way seems wrong to you. Ok I can
> > understand this, although you will have to grant me that this is
> > hardly an argument that can appeal to users who don't speak french.
>
> we had the same problem at discogs.com - currently, Ever First Letter
> Must Be Capitilised, which is great in that everyone can easily follow
> it, but crap in that it just looks wrong to me (i'm English) - i mean
> totally wrong! so i can entirely sympathise with Mangled here.
>
> the way I see it, the rules should be such that those who know the
> language are able to capitilise 'correctly', no matter how complex
> those rules may be. however it should be anticipated that others will
> just capitilise as they see fit, but they certainly shouldn't
> 're-crapify' the text once it's been fixed by someone with The
> Knowledge. personally i don't think there's anything wrong with this,
> and if you think about it, that's pretty much the entire MBz process
> summed up :)
>
> i mean, ultimately it would be easiest if WE JUST TYPED EVERYTHING IN
> UPPERCASE but that's not ideal, is it?

Good point :-)

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Frederic Da Vitoria