@brandneworld@feddit.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 2 years agoWhy uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?message-square21fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up136arrow-down1message-squareWhy uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?@brandneworld@feddit.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 2 years agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation? What Is The Origin Of That?
minus-square@OddFed@feddit.delinkfedilink76•2 years agoThat’s just title capitalisation in English. 😅 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
minus-square@Scrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilink1•2 years agoOP is probably not English. Other languages have different rules. For example, in Italian book titles only have the first word capitalized, e.g.: “I promessi sposi”
minus-square@Scrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilink1•2 years agoOf course, yes! The original title of I promessi sposi was “Renzo e Lucia”, so capitalized proper nouns.
minus-squareZloubidalinkfedilink1•2 years agoIn French, it’s only the first word and the first noun or verb (Le grand Sommeil). But almost nobody respects this rule anymore.
That’s just title capitalisation in English. 😅
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
Fucking capitalists.
OP is probably not English. Other languages have different rules.
For example, in Italian book titles only have the first word capitalized, e.g.: “I promessi sposi”
Same for Spanish, barring any proper nouns
Of course, yes! The original title of I promessi sposi was “Renzo e Lucia”, so capitalized proper nouns.
In French, it’s only the first word and the first noun or verb (Le grand Sommeil). But almost nobody respects this rule anymore.