Re: majuscules in English (was Re: simple ui question)

Subject: Re: majuscules in English (was Re: simple ui question)
From: coliver -at- lexmark -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:47:21 -0500


Quoth Dick Margulis:
>But what I've noticed as a much more annoying trend is the
>unselfconscious Capitalization of every Noun--Or Even Every Word--by
>non-writers. It's as if there is something about the German rule that is
>intuitively appealing to people who never paid attention in English
>class. Surely, as someone who also works in marketing, er, Marketing,
>you've seen this, too.

My own observation has been that it's especially common to lawyers and
their minions. They seem to have some need to make everything into a
proper noun in case it needs to be targeted by legal action... ;)

- C.


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