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      Eggcorn last edited by

      I've noticed that a few people on this forum, especially new users asking for help with some problem with Vivaldi, don't capitalize the first letter of a sentence? What's up with that?

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        Pesala - Ambassador - @Eggcorn last edited by

        @Eggcorn a lot of users dont have english as their first language, and others post with a mobile.

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          Eggcorn @Pesala last edited by

          @Pesala Mobile, I can see that. The Shift key might be trickery to use there. But not having English as a first language: I doubt it. If anything, I think that'd make someone more likely to use capitalization! If you're learning English as a second language: You'll probably learn to capitalize the first letter of a sentence, before you'll learn to make complex sentences and paragraphs.

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            guigirl last edited by

            I presume the incorrect over-capitalisation of your thread title is irony?

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              TbGbe @Eggcorn last edited by

              @Eggcorn said in What's with People not Capitalizing the First Letter of a Sentence?:

              If you're learning English as a second language

              Well, maybe they are not actually learning; just using what has been picked up on TV/Movies etc.

              Of course, some people are just lazy (to be polite)!!

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                Eggcorn @guigirl last edited by Eggcorn

                @guigirl said in What's with People not Capitalizing the First Letter of a Sentence?:

                I presume the incorrect over-capitalisation of your thread title is irony?

                No. Frankly, I'm not too clear on what the capitalisation rules are for titles. I thought you were supposed to capitalize the first letter of every word in a title, except "basic" (for lack of a better term) words like "the" and "not". But I could be wrong, I really should look that up.

                Anyway: There's a difference between being unclear on capitalisation rules for titles, and not capitalizing the first letter of a sentence.

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                  Pesala - Ambassador - @Eggcorn last edited by

                  @Eggcorn said in What's with People not Capitalizing the First Letter of a Sentence?:

                  I'm not too clear on what the capitulation rules are for titles.

                  You got it right. It is called Title Case. Ideally, everyone would use it for Topic titles — I believe the rule is capitalise every word except prepositions and conjunctions.

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                    stilgarwolf last edited by

                    In googlish there are no capital letters.

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                      guigirl @Eggcorn last edited by

                      @Eggcorn It's hard to keep a straight face reading you here. IMO anyone who wants to cast aspersions on strangers' English [or any other language, as circumstances dictate] needs to familiarise themselves pretty robustly with the glass houses stone throwing aphorism, then ensure their own spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax etc are all pretty damn good. Otherwise... egg, face.

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                      @Eggcorn said in What's with People not Capitalizing the First Letter of a Sentence?:

                      I'm not too clear on what the capitulation rules

                      Ordinarily I'd not have pointed any of this out to you, except you have pretty much invited it.

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                        A Former User @Pesala last edited by

                        @Pesala said in What's with People not Capitalizing the First Letter of a Sentence?:

                        Ideally, everyone would use it for Topic titles

                        Are they names? I thought they were just summaries of what the topic is about.

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                          Eggcorn @guigirl last edited by Eggcorn

                          @guigirl There's a big difference between not being clear on capitalisation rules for titles, and not capitalizing the first letter of a sentence! If you can't see the difference, I can't help you.

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                            Eggcorn @Guest last edited by

                            @potmeklecbohdan That's what a title is, a summary of what the topic (or book, or article, or whatever) is about.

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                              A Former User @Eggcorn last edited by

                              @Eggcorn Yeah but there is a difference between a title & a name. A title is semi-random & doesn’t need to be preserved in its exact form while a name is always the same.

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                                guigirl @Eggcorn last edited by

                                @Eggcorn said in What's with People not Capitalizing the First Letter of a Sentence?:

                                capitulation

                                Gee willywackers, such fun times.

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                                  Eggcorn @Guest last edited by

                                  @potmeklecbohdan Perhaps, but I think I'm missing your point.

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                                    A Former User @Eggcorn last edited by

                                    @Eggcorn The topic title is just a summary that can be transformed & it’s still the same topic (it isn’t a name & there’s no reason for over-capitalisation). The name of a book should stay unchanged (& hence in English it should be over-capitalised / Title Cased).

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                                      Eggcorn @guigirl last edited by

                                      @guigirl To be honest: After thinking about what you said more, I'm disturbed by your mentality. You seem to be saying that I have to be perfect, to criticize anything or call for anything to be better. That I have to always eat right and get proper exercise, before I can tell people not to drink bleach (and yes, there are people who drink bleach). That I have to always use a VPN, a proxy, and the Tor network, before I can suggest a privacy-respecting browser such as Vivaldi. That I have to have perfect grammar, before I can expect people to capitalize the first letter of a sentence.

                                      And that mentality, it gets in the way of progress. Because nobody's perfect! So no one can ever have standards, offer advice, or say that we need to improve anything.

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                                        guigirl @Eggcorn last edited by

                                        @Eggcorn More barrel-fishing.
                                        Hole
                                        Bottom
                                        Digging
                                        Stop

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                                          Eggcorn @guigirl last edited by

                                          @guigirl I'll point you to the comic "Mister Gotcha" by Matt Bors. It uses humor to make the point I made, in my last post. But I don't really expect it to convince you, I think we're not going to see eye-to-eye on this.

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                                            Eggcorn @Guest last edited by

                                            @potmeklecbohdan said in What's with People not Capitalizing the First Letter of a Sentence?:

                                            The topic title is just a summary that can be transformed & it’s still the same topic (it isn’t a name & there’s no reason for over-capitalisation). The name of a book should stay unchanged (& hence in English it should be over-capitalised / Title Cased).

                                            I don't think so. This thread has a name, and that name isn't "Why aren't People Capitalizing the First Letter of a Sentence?". I could have named it that (that name would have worked just fine), but I didn't. I named it "What's with People not Capitalizing the First Letter of a Sentence?". And shouldn't the name of a thread should stay unchanged, unless there's some reason to rename it?

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