tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post4956298143792616967..comments2024-03-14T10:31:26.918+00:00Comments on DCblog: On capitalizing/CapitalizingDChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10192779827863835310noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-1542969492060096962012-07-08T02:10:32.920+00:002012-07-08T02:10:32.920+00:00As a 20 year student, I've often noticed capit...As a 20 year student, I've often noticed capitalisations on status posts on social networks. Just browsing through my Blackberry messenger updates, I've already spotted a status that says: "I've Got A Mind Of My Own", and before reading this post I wondered why people capitalised each word if there was no special reason for drawing attention. After reading this post, however, I established that "capitalisation is a higly variable matter, influenced by personal taste, graphic aesthetics, and social trends..." So, now my mind is at rest I can finally say Thank You.Joshwoolynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-15359328911235492652012-07-08T02:09:55.517+00:002012-07-08T02:09:55.517+00:00As a 20 year student, I've often noticed capit...As a 20 year student, I've often noticed capitalisations on status posts on social networks. Just browsing through my Blackberry messenger updates, I've already spotted a status that says: "I've Got A Mind Of My Own", and before reading this post I wondered why people capitalised each word if there was no special reason for drawing attention. After reading this post, however, I established that "capitalisation is a higly variable matter, influenced by personal taste, graphic aesthetics, and social trends..." So, now my mind is at rest I can finally say Thank You.Joshwoolynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-79808229395658739142012-06-01T23:23:09.975+00:002012-06-01T23:23:09.975+00:00Quite a bit of Victorian / Edwardian writing on re...Quite a bit of Victorian / Edwardian writing on religious matters uses "Reason" rather than "reason". Interestingly this can have an effect on the way their argument is presented as "Reason" becomes almost a "personality" or Platonic form in the way in which it is used.TonyTheProfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10486414706261508994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-28502315823171798512012-05-23T07:55:56.545+00:002012-05-23T07:55:56.545+00:00"There's Pooh," he thought to himsel..."There's Pooh," he thought to himself. "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan..."AndrewOnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-48773758936812028442012-05-22T18:47:33.108+00:002012-05-22T18:47:33.108+00:00Martin Haspelmath and like-minded people use capit...Martin Haspelmath and like-minded people use capitals to distinguish between universal semantic and language-specific morphological forms in linguistic jargon. Thus, he could write something like "In English, the Present of most verbs does not express the present, but the future or habitual; the present is normally expressed by the Present Progressive." (Not an actual quotation.)John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-31522518062444656332012-05-22T14:26:57.318+00:002012-05-22T14:26:57.318+00:00American English uses capitals far less than Briti...<i>American English uses capitals far less than British English</i><br /><br />although broadsheet newspaper headlines use more capitals in the US than in the UK.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com