[mb-users] re: Capitalization or not

[Björn Krombholz]

On 8/29/06, Ben <bench at silentmedia.com> wrote:
> Yeah, the "proper" way is "Around Midnight." :) But obviously that's
> not what the artist intended, so maybe the most proper thing would be
> to follow whatever the artist did....

While scimming the post regarding this topic, this statement seems to
be the most reasonable IMO.

First, I don't think we need a rule/guideline for this at all as there
is obviously no such rule for the English language. So use, what the
artist used.

Second, it seems to be very hard to reach a consensus on the topic
because everybody seems to have a strong preference on the issue.

For items where no artist intent is identifiable, I'd prefer 'round, because
a) a big letter following the apostrophe makes the semantics of the
apostrophe ambiguous, because it could be the starting of a quotes
phrase, or an omission of parts of a word.
b) it's what would be correct in my mother tongue German
c) it looks better in my eyes ;)


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