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Subject:Re: There must be some kind of standard.... From:Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> To:jopakent <jopakent -at- comcast -dot- net> Date:Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:59:03 -0800
On Feb 24, 2010, at 3:06 PM, jopakent wrote:
> I run into this kind of writing so frequently here, that I'm
> beginning to
> wonder if there might be some basis for it. It seems like there is
> some kind
> of guideline that says: "if something is important or significant,
> capitalize it."
>
It's an engineer thing. They like to capitalize things. Unless they
are proper nouns or actual product
names, I remove them all and no one has complained yet.
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