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by solidr53 10y ago

Tomte 10y ago
Words in titles are conventionally capitalized (with the exception of "the", "a" and similar).
- wott 10y ago
  I've often wondered: Is it an English thing or an American thing? Is it recent or has it always been the rule? Does it depend on the 'class' of the publication? To me it is unreadable, a real PITA to process such capitalised titles. Especially with English language, for it has very short words, hence capitals can harm the reading rhythm every 4 or 5 characters; and the same word can be a noun, an adjective or a verb depending on the context (and there is close to no context in a title).
  - thequickeninger 10y ago
    The author messed up. Titles and "Proper Nouns" should be capitalized. The title of a book, the title of a movie, the name of a town, the name of a building, someones name, etc. Although this isn't the case when the title contains words like the or of or some other minor word.
  - wott 10y ago
    So I checked a bit for the newspapers. None of the English newspapers I checked does it. In the USA, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, do it; but USA Today, LA Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune don't. Washington Post apparently does or did both. None of the Australian newspapers I checked does it (and at first sight, most of them seem to fall in the following category...). Tabloids either use one foot high full capital titles, or don't capitalise. Not any French, Spanish, German use this capitalisation style either. Of course Germans do capitalise nouns, as they do in regular text. So, it seems to be an American-only thing, and not even widespread there (for newspaper titles).
  - Someone 10y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_publication_titles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_publi... doesn't have much info, but does claim: "As regards publication titles it is, however, a common typographic practice among both British and U.S. publishers to capitalise significant words (and in the United States, this is often applied to headings, too)" As to readability: I think you should see title case as a way to make text more noticable without going for the nuclear option "ALL UPPERCASE". If you look at it that way, you will be happy whenever you see title case.
  - bryondowd 10y ago
    I can't speak to other countries, but it seems to be the norm in the US. APA (American Psychological Association) style calls for capitalization of major words in titles, and that seems to be the most commonly assigned style for college students. The other two common styles I've seen referenced in the US, MLA (Modern Language Association) and Chicago Manual of Style (usually just referred to as Chicago style) both also call for similar capitalization. I don't know of any standards that call for normal sentence capitalization for titles, so I assume they must be in-house standards or some standard that is not common in my domain.

So this post is not about React? because captial R ...

Tomte 10y ago

Words in titles are conventionally capitalized (with the exception of "the", "a" and similar).

wott 10y ago
I've often wondered: Is it an English thing or an American thing? Is it recent or has it always been the rule? Does it depend on the 'class' of the publication? To me it is unreadable, a real PITA to process such capitalised titles. Especially with English language, for it has very short words, hence capitals can harm the reading rhythm every 4 or 5 characters; and the same word can be a noun, an adjective or a verb depending on the context (and there is close to no context in a title).
- thequickeninger 10y ago
  The author messed up. Titles and "Proper Nouns" should be capitalized. The title of a book, the title of a movie, the name of a town, the name of a building, someones name, etc. Although this isn't the case when the title contains words like the or of or some other minor word.
- wott 10y ago
  So I checked a bit for the newspapers. None of the English newspapers I checked does it. In the USA, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, do it; but USA Today, LA Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune don't. Washington Post apparently does or did both. None of the Australian newspapers I checked does it (and at first sight, most of them seem to fall in the following category...). Tabloids either use one foot high full capital titles, or don't capitalise. Not any French, Spanish, German use this capitalisation style either. Of course Germans do capitalise nouns, as they do in regular text. So, it seems to be an American-only thing, and not even widespread there (for newspaper titles).
- Someone 10y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_publication_titles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_publi... doesn't have much info, but does claim: "As regards publication titles it is, however, a common typographic practice among both British and U.S. publishers to capitalise significant words (and in the United States, this is often applied to headings, too)" As to readability: I think you should see title case as a way to make text more noticable without going for the nuclear option "ALL UPPERCASE". If you look at it that way, you will be happy whenever you see title case.
- bryondowd 10y ago
  I can't speak to other countries, but it seems to be the norm in the US. APA (American Psychological Association) style calls for capitalization of major words in titles, and that seems to be the most commonly assigned style for college students. The other two common styles I've seen referenced in the US, MLA (Modern Language Association) and Chicago Manual of Style (usually just referred to as Chicago style) both also call for similar capitalization. I don't know of any standards that call for normal sentence capitalization for titles, so I assume they must be in-house standards or some standard that is not common in my domain.