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Non native speaker, off topic grammar question: Why do we capitalize “Geeks”?
by noncoml 4y ago
Non native speaker, off topic grammar question: Why do we capitalize “Geeks”?
- bombcar 4y agoUsually it's a method of referring to a "group" as opposed to referring to a characteristic.
- mikestew 4y agoFor the same reason that "weather" is misspelled and "Geeks" isn't possessive (should be "Geek's"): author is probably also a non-native speaker, or written language just isn't their specialty. That said, this native American English speaker says that "Geeks" can be capitalized, but the rest of the title needs to be "title cased" as well: "The Geek's Way of Checking What the Weather..." Or it can all just be lower-cased ("The geek's way of..."). But mixed case as TFA has it is arguably wrong. Finally, to answer your question succinctly: there normally isn't a reason to capitalize "geeks" unless it's in the title of an article or book (as it is above).
- dredmorbius 4y agoFWIW, Martin Huesmann appears to be German (<https://www.unixmen.com/meet-martin-husemann-and-netbsd-interview/ https://www.unixmen.com/meet-martin-husemann-and-netbsd-inte...>). That would suggest both that he's a non-native English speaker and uses a language in which all nouns, not just proper ones, are typically capitalised. That said, yes, some sloppy editing as well. Not that I'd ever do schu a thing....
- munk-a 4y agoIt's good you caught all of you're typos.
- dredmorbius 4y agoThats fore shore!!!
- Lendal 4y agoI just assumed it was an unintentional typographical error, or a quirk for comedic effect.