brandneworld@feddit.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 年前Why uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up182arrow-down1message-squareWhy uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?brandneworld@feddit.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 年前message-square42fedilinkfile-text
Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation? What Is The Origin Of That?
minus-squareOddFed@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down1·1 年前That’s just title capitalisation in English. 😅 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
minus-squareLetstakealook@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down3·1 年前In thinking OP may not be a native speaker or was massively failed by their educational system, i.e., American.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-21 年前Interestingly Wikipedia itself does not use this for article titles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles_of_works#Capital_letters
minus-squarestarlinguk@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-21 年前A lot of newspapers don’t do it anymore either. It’s still used for book titles, though.
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 年前OP is probably not English. Other languages have different rules. For example, in Italian book titles only have the first word capitalized, e.g.: “I promessi sposi”
minus-squareCanadian_Cabinet @lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 年前Same for Spanish, barring any proper nouns
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前Of course, yes! The original title of I promessi sposi was “Renzo e Lucia”, so capitalized proper nouns.
minus-squareDRUMS_@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 年前Yes, but how is that not a legitimate explanation. There’s enough Americans on lemmy to see a few posts with English title capitalization.
minus-squareZloubida@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前In French, it’s only the first word and the first noun or verb (Le grand Sommeil). But almost nobody respects this rule anymore.
That’s just title capitalisation in English. 😅
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
Fucking capitalists.
Oh, you.
In thinking OP may not be a native speaker or was massively failed by their educational system, i.e., American.
Interestingly Wikipedia itself does not use this for article titles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles_of_works#Capital_letters
Fucking communists.
A lot of newspapers don’t do it anymore either.
It’s still used for book titles, though.
OP is probably not English. Other languages have different rules.
For example, in Italian book titles only have the first word capitalized, e.g.: “I promessi sposi”
Same for Spanish, barring any proper nouns
Of course, yes! The original title of I promessi sposi was “Renzo e Lucia”, so capitalized proper nouns.
Yes, but how is that not a legitimate explanation. There’s enough Americans on lemmy to see a few posts with English title capitalization.
In French, it’s only the first word and the first noun or verb (Le grand Sommeil). But almost nobody respects this rule anymore.