[ SECRET POST #2437 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2437 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Inspired by #10

[(Anonymous)]

Inconsistent capitalization in titles. If you're put the whole title in lowercase for ~*artistic*~ reasons, I can grudgingly tolerate that, but otherwise there's no excuse.

"A Story About Batman Drinking Tea" is the best way to go.

"a story about batman drinking tea" is somewhat pretentious, but acceptable.

"A story about Batman drinking Tea" is NOT acceptable.

Re: Inspired by #10

[(Anonymous)]

(same anon)

*you're putting, not you're put. Fucking typos.

Re: Inspired by #10

[kaijinscendre]

Hmm. I have never noticed that before. What is your position on the smaller words that traditionally are not (like a, to, an, the)?

Re: Inspired by #10

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Those are supposed to be uncapitalized, so it's alright.

Re: Inspired by #10

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, that is how capitalisation works in German - all nouns are capitalised. (So "story" would have to be, too. That'd be consistent, at least.)
However, if it's just done to look ~cool~, then I definitely agree that it's annoying.

Re: Inspired by #10

[cassandraoftroy]

I really don't understand the whole "put the whole title in lowercase for ~artistic reasons~" thing -- where did it come from, anyway?

Re: Inspired by #10

[(Anonymous)]

e.e. cummings

Re: Inspired by #10

[(Anonymous)]

In some languages using uppercase within a title is a clear grammar error, so some of might be esl-ing.

"A Story About Batman Drinking Tea" could for instance be correctly translated to "En historie om Batman som drikker te".

Actually, Alfred did make him tea in a Batthermos to bring on a mission once, but the steam gathered under his mask and he almost crashed his Batplane.

Re: Inspired by #10

[cassandraoftroy]

But even then, the first word and proper nouns (like Batman) are capitalized. This whole pseudo-artsy e.e.cummings BS involves no capital letters at all.

Re: Inspired by #10

[(Anonymous)]

I was taught in school that important words are supposed to be capitalized (along with the first word as usual,) whereas insignificant transitional or filler ones should not be.

Thus: "In Which the Fellowship of the Ring Encounters a Flying Spaghetti Monster and is Chased Away, Screaming like a Bunch of Little Girls." (Though I'm actually not sure whether that 'like' needs capitalized or not.)

So it may not always be inconsistent, possibly just in a style that's falling out of fashion now? (As I assume by your rant that this is no longer taught?)