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JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I spell out numbers when I want to emphasize them.

Take George Orwell for example:

“Nineteen Eighty-Four” has a lot more of a punch to it than just “1984.”

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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I used to work in a library, and I hate this. We used to have both a “2001: a space Odyssey” and a “two thousand and one: a space oddesey”, sorted based on the spelling.

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- JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Isn’t that part of the reason we have Dewey/LoC system?
  
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  - Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Those are for academic books, not novels. And you’d still sort everything within a category alphabetically by author and then by title (usually)
    
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    JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I found Larry Flynt’s autobiography at my university’s library using the LCCN system.
    
    Then again that’s a University library so it might be different.
    
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MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah haha, this is why it came to my mind. In this case it’s a title, so not really for the purpose of being used as a number.

Though, I suppose I didn’t specify this

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