atw: Re: Use of caps for titles etc
- From: "Elizabeth Fullerton" <Elizabeth.Fullerton@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 11:06:02 +1000
I'm a capitalisation minimalist - I hate seeing them all over the place,
and developers seem to just panic when they have to write anything
that's not code, and they put caps in everywhere (kinda like the way
those guys on the Footy Show say "myself" instead of "me" because the
only thing they are sure about their grammar is that its probably not
correct, so they overcompensate). I only put caps on proper nouns:
"Establish an advisory panel to advise the steering committee and the
project manager..."
But:
"Establish an advisory panel to advise the Cheese Steering Committee
..."
(I'm going dairy-free at the moment... Can you tell?)
-----Original Message-----
From: Stevens, Garry [mailto:Garry.Stevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Friday, 10 October 2003 4:20 PM
To: 'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: atw: Use of caps for titles etc
Hi All:
Are there any style suggestions for use of caps? For example:
"Establish an Advisory Panel to advise the Steering Committee and the
Project Manager on..."
Wherever I go, people seem to think that English is German in its
liberal
use of capitalisation. Drives me nuts. But offhand I'm not aware of
rules to
either justify or denigrate the use of capital Letters for almost every
Noun
in a Sentence.
Garry
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