brandneworld@feddit.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhy uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?message-squaremessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1message-squareWhy uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?brandneworld@feddit.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation? What Is The Origin Of That?
minus-squareOddFed@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoThat’s just title capitalisation in English. 😅 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoInterestingly Wikipedia itself does not use this for article titles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles_of_works#Capital_letters
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year 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-squareCanadian_Cabinet @lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoSame for Spanish, barring any proper nouns
That’s just title capitalisation in English. 😅
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
Interestingly Wikipedia itself does not use this for article titles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles_of_works#Capital_letters
Fucking communists.
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