On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:34:33 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote: > On 2024-06-21 04:50, David Chmelik wrote: >> No literate person would write "I'm going to My Garage to get My >> Toolbox and My Hammer and My Saw and My Nails to work on My Project" >> because one doesn't capitalise nouns except proper nouns, which aren't >> used in that example (only exception is academic context, such as >> Science/Mathematics Department or Class/Course, but not when talking >> about science/mathematics or classes/courses in non-academic context). >> However, this ungrammatical style is sadly what most user interfaces >> do, including XDG-specified! I don't know that's because most copied >> early versions of Windows and/or similar software on UNIX that had >> program groups with capitalised names despite being similar to garages >> & toolboxes and not being academic subjects. It's also wrong in >> standard/classic menus such as 'File Edit View Help' though as those >> capital letters get underlined, may improve their readability. > > The title-style capitalization is appropriate. It's uniquely English, > and many translations address casing locale-specifically.
False; for example Apple and Windows do the same in French, Spanish, etc.: bad grammar isn't unique to the English-speaking world.
