Why Titles Are Written Like This?

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How to Respond to a Question on Title Capitalization: A Brief Commentary

  It isn’t normal to capitalize every first letter… it’s normal to capitalize nearly every first letter.

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  • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    articles and prepositions are exempt

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  • i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, little words aren’t supposed to be capitalised, but I’m never quite sure which ones to leave off so usually I just capitalise everything.

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  • dan00@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So whats the rule?

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    • timuchan@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Basic rules here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The same reason we capitalize peoples’ names, since a title is the proper name of a written work.

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  • illi@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s kinda weird that this makes perfect sense.

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    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I wonder if people were never taught this, or if they just forget everything. Third grade for me…

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• tkk13909@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s been the standard for English titles for a very long time (at least the past hundred years, probably more).

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  • dan00@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is there a reason? It’s not very readable…

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    • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In a time of handwriting, you could make clearer that This Was a Title without having to say it was a title or putting it in quotation marks.

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• orhtej2@eviltoast.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because They’re Supposed to Use Title Case

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  • dan00@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m gonna start asking people which sacred house of style for Titles they follow now…

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• 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s certainly not a universal thing either, no other language I know does it.

  Once I asked on linguistics (or maybe English language) stackexchange about the origins of it, but it got deleted as duplicate of a related but definitely different question. Most satisfying stackexchange interaction

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The short answer is to distinguish titles from the main body of text (or synopsis, lede, etc.)

  It doesn’t need to be very readable because it’s used sparingly, and it’s more important that it stands out so you know what you’re reading, etc.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s always been that way. It’s just proper grammar. IDK why… Shit was never explained why we do what we do in English, just that it is done. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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• Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Like What?

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• eatham@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It isn’t normal outside of names and acronyms

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is normal. But it goes something like this: The Incredible Tale of the Tiny Red Dog.

    Words like of, the, are, is etc. don’t get a capital.

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