[mb-users] Capitalisation or not

[Bogdan Butnaru]

On 8/28/06, Nine99 <9.9.9 at gmx.net> wrote:
> joan WHITTAKER wrote:
> > I personally favour showing it as 'round using the logic that the "r" is
> > the second letter of the word and should not, therefore, be capitalised.
> Me too. What about titles like
> "...and Someword"
> I think the and should be lowercase. This is a similar case, IMO.

I apply the same arguments as in my last mail: we capitalize words to
emphasize the title. In cases where punctuation starts the title, this
effect doesn't work that well, because the capital de-emphasizes the
start of the title (punctuation); also, it's not necessary, because
initial title punctuation is uncommon enough that it causes emphasis
by itself.

So I vote for no initial capital for apostrophe-elided word-parts
(like 'round) and for normally un-capitalized words after of
ellipsis-ellided sentence parts (like "...and Justice for All", but
not "...Something Else") because it would "shadow" the (intentional)
ellision.

(Someone should rephrase that to something more inteligible; I mean
only words like "and" & "the" should be lower-cased after the
ellipsis.)

Can anyone think of any other similar examples? (I mean, other such
punctuation.)

-- Bogdan Butnaru — bogdanb at gmail.com
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