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I grew up in a bilingual home. I sometimes refer to what I speak and write as Germish. I routinely have to look up "Is that one word or two?" because German ru
by DoreenMichele 4y ago
I grew up in a bilingual home. I sometimes refer to what I speak and write as Germish.
I routinely have to look up "Is that one word or two?" because German runs words together so much more often than English and I capitalize too many things because German capitalizes all nouns and English only capitalizes proper nouns.
A friend of mine once described my capitalization choices as "raising my voice," a place between "speaking normally" and the internet "yelling" of writing in all caps.
- BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago>”I capitalize too many things because German capitalizes all nouns and English only capitalizes proper nouns.” I’ve gotten into a particularly bad habit of capitalizing nouns haphazardly and I don't speak any German. I think it’s from programming becuase it happens very often in my Code Comments.
- DoreenMichele 4y agoOn Twitter, phrases for hashtags should use capitalization of all words for reasons of accessibility. Screen readers can parse it that way and can't if you don't and it's easier for human eyes too, so it helps visually-impaired people who aren't yet actually blind.
- kergonath 4y ago> On Twitter, phrases for hashtags should use capitalization of all words for reasons of accessibility Ah, the classic #susanalbumparty
- DoreenMichele 4y ago0_o
- orthoxerox 4y agoTell your friend you are emulating 18th century English: > We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
- DoreenMichele 4y agoMore like 19th Century German. My German mother was taught to write by an Elderly Aunt before she started School, so her Handwriting looks like old German Script.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoNote the founders were already declining to capitalize Truths or Men :)
- CRConrad 4y agoThose are both towards the beginning of the sentence. Maybe just an "Oops, forgot to capitalize the nouns, better start!" moment? (But sure, the reason they forgot -- if that's what happened -- was most likely that the practice was falling out of common use, and therefore reserved only for fancier Shtuff like Constitutions.)