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The the name de Zwart appears inconsistently capitalized throughout the article. If you do a matched-case search in the body text, de Zwart appears 3 times, wh
by barkingcat 6y ago
The the name de Zwart appears inconsistently capitalized throughout the article.
If you do a matched-case search in the body text, de Zwart
appears 3 times, while De Zwart occurs 7 times outside of quotation marks, and other locations (like at the beginning of a sentence) where English rules will capitalize a name.
I believe to follow proper Dutch capitalization, it should be similar to, for example:
Being a digital rights activist, de Zwart knows this discussion very well, so he starts to meticulously log his attempts to get clarity.
However, I can't be sure if in Dutch, a lower case pre-surname is capitalized in circumstances when it's used in a sentence vs as a full name.
Without the clarification of rules governing the use of such lower case surnames, I can't be exactly sure whether the capitalization is on purpose or not.
- detaro 6y agoLuckily a large part of this HN discussion already goes into detail about this.
- barkingcat 6y agoFor example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24763789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24763789