Sigrid Kronenberger wrote:
My point was simply that headline style capitalization is much more
common.
I strongly disagree with you. This might be possible in English books.
But your wording is in that way, that it is everywhere the same. And
this isn't true. I have here different German O'Reilly books and they
use here "sentence style".
I could be wrong, but I'm under the vague impression that heading-style
capitalization is more common in the USA than elsewhere. I am in the UK,
and here I see sentence-style capitalization a lot.
I know that Wikipedia is not an authoritative source, but they seem to
agree with my impression:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization#Headings_and_publication_titles
It's an interesting read. It says that adding extra capitals is an old
form of emphasis. I guess that the implication is that it's been phased
out over time. I think I rad somewhere that once upon a time people even
used extra capitals to emphasize regular text.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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