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Many people being raised today do not even realize there is any significance in the capitalization. I personally don't see any significance in the capitalizatio
by notus 8y ago
Many people being raised today do not even realize there is any significance in the capitalization. I personally don't see any significance in the capitalization, as a christian god has just as much weight as any other deity. Instead of attributing the lack of capitalization to some intent of the person using the word, the author of this article should attribute it to indifference instead.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoIt's more about bad grammar than anything else, to me. Proper names should be capitalized. You wouldn't type "zeus" or "thor." If you're talking about the concept of gods, then lowercase is fine, and the article mentions that.
- jbob2000 8y agoIt's the internet, this is the place where languages go to die. You can try to get people to follow grammar rules, but they'll probably just rotflmao ;).
- pmdulaney 8y agoDo you not see the significance of the capital "C" in "Christian" either?
- threatofrain 8y agoI find it as typographically awkward as if you put Chinese person in that response. It's a whole chunk of lower case and what does someone choose to pull my attention to? The C in Chinese? And every mention must do that? For sake of orthodoxy. When someone underuses a typographic convention I find it suddenly more powerful.
- pmdulaney 8y agoDo I understand you to say that sometimes you use "Chinese" but you also sometimes use "chinese"?
- threatofrain 8y agoFor non-casual conversation, I generally write to the audience, which varies in how I rate their valuing of these kinds of language conventions. When I'm writing to myself I consider my own ergonomics. So if one's mother purchased many jars of preserved fruits like apricots, pineapples, or chinese plums, the use of capitalization wouldn't be as noisy. Maybe one day we'll just all use a language formatting tool for different kinds of public communication.