Hi Jim and Phil
Interesting discussion. The poet e.e. cummings wrote in lower-case before the internet.
But Phil, you could go back further: alexandrinescribesbangedallthewordstogetherinlowercasewithoutpunctuationorspaces - not to save time, but because papyrus was expensive.
Joking apart, I was just pondering on the style sheet for DDN communities:
"Titles
Choose titles that are very clear, descriptive and specific. Be sure to capitalize the first letter of every word."
Now capitalizing every word in titles is one English convention (even articles, prepositions, pronouns, though?). In several other languages (French, Italian, Spanish, (modern) Greek for instance), it would be wrong or look pre-20th or even pre-19th century. In German it would be wrong and confusing, because German capitalizes the first letter of all nouns everywhere, but only of nouns.
So when writing in another language than English at the DDN communities, can we follow that language's use for titles?
cheers
Claude
-- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch
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