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Just a pedantic nitpick since I couldn’t stop the biologist in me: It’s “reuteri”, all lowercase.

by flobosg 4y ago

bawolff 4y ago
Even in title case? Its not like we would normally capitalize "Human" or "Health" either?
- sohkamyung 4y ago
  It's Binomial nomenclature [1]. The name should also be in italics, but not sure how that would be enabled in HN headlines. > In modern usage, the first letter of the generic name is always capitalized in writing, while that of the specific epithet is not, even when derived from a proper noun such as the name of a person or place. Similarly, both parts are italicized in normal text (or underlined in handwriting). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature
  - bawolff 4y ago
    That's kind of irrelavent though. Its capitalized because its in a title like any other word that would not normally be capitalized.
    - flobosg 4y ago
      It is not irrelevant. Check out the capitalization of the article’s title in its website.
      - bawolff 4y ago
        Interesting. You're right, it is not capitalized in the original article. Although i still think the passage you are quoting is talking about normal text and not title case. Which is kind of confusing to me as when i tried to look it up in style guides, they seem to indicate that all nouns should be capitalized in a title, e.g. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/capitalization/title-case https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/capitaliza...
        sohkamyung 4y ago
        There is this [1]. Maybe it applies here > When an animal name is part of a journal article title, it is conventional to provide the animal’s scientific name (genus and species). Genus is always capitalized and species is not. Notice that the scientific names are also italicized [1] https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2017/02/-how-to-format-scientific-names-of-animals.html https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2017/02/-how-to-format-sc...

Just a pedantic nitpick since I couldn’t stop the biologist in me: It’s “reuteri”, all lowercase.

bawolff 4y ago

Even in title case? Its not like we would normally capitalize "Human" or "Health" either?

sohkamyung 4y ago
It's Binomial nomenclature [1]. The name should also be in italics, but not sure how that would be enabled in HN headlines. > In modern usage, the first letter of the generic name is always capitalized in writing, while that of the specific epithet is not, even when derived from a proper noun such as the name of a person or place. Similarly, both parts are italicized in normal text (or underlined in handwriting). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature
- bawolff 4y ago
  That's kind of irrelavent though. Its capitalized because its in a title like any other word that would not normally be capitalized.
  - flobosg 4y ago
    It is not irrelevant. Check out the capitalization of the article’s title in its website.
    - bawolff 4y ago
      Interesting. You're right, it is not capitalized in the original article. Although i still think the passage you are quoting is talking about normal text and not title case. Which is kind of confusing to me as when i tried to look it up in style guides, they seem to indicate that all nouns should be capitalized in a title, e.g. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/capitalization/title-case https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/capitaliza...
      - sohkamyung 4y ago
        There is this [1]. Maybe it applies here > When an animal name is part of a journal article title, it is conventional to provide the animal’s scientific name (genus and species). Genus is always capitalized and species is not. Notice that the scientific names are also italicized [1] https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2017/02/-how-to-format-scientific-names-of-animals.html https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2017/02/-how-to-format-sc...