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Wow, reading the comments is fascinating. It is amazing how strong people's opinions can be on something that is ultimately inconsequential. Well, here's my two
by goodcanadian 11y ago
Wow, reading the comments is fascinating. It is amazing how strong people's opinions can be on something that is ultimately inconsequential. Well, here's my two cents:
I've never thought internet should be capitalized. I was always under the impression that was the majority view of tech people though from reading the comments here, I may be mistaken. It seems even that what is or is not a proper noun is not self evident. I do not consider internet or moon or sun (other common examples in these comments) to be proper nouns. Those are not their names. Just because we generally consider them singular and unique does not make them proper nouns anymore than "the car" is when I talk to my wife. We only have one car. It is singular and unique, but "Car" is not it's name.
However, follow whatever rule you want. Most people are terrible at following the rules anyway, even when they know them. We just have to accept a certain amount of variability in these things. Just know that it will always look strange to me to see internet, sun, or moon capitalized.
- lucideer 11y agoJust to clarify on your moon example, the typical logic behind its capitalisation is that - e.g. - Jupiter has many moons (each with their own name), Earth has one moon; Earth's moon is called the Moon. There is only one internet [sic.] That said, the difference is absolutely inconsequential. English prepositions offer sufficient context to make this whole debate redundant in most cases anyway.
- rayiner 11y agoThe Moon and the Sun are the names for those things and are proper nouns. See: http://itsnameisthemoon.com http://itsnameisthemoon.com, http://itsnameisthesun.com http://itsnameisthesun.com.
- goodcanadian 11y agoI understand that is the opinion of many people. It is not, however, my opinion. In my opinion, those are descriptive and are not in fact names. If I were forced to name them, I might call them Luna and Sol.
- tptacek 11y agoClick through to the article; you've literally restated one of the FAQs.