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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | Real simple. The word "some" in rating details.... Connector that stays lower-case, or word that gets Capitalized? I've been seeing a lot of both lately and the rules aren't perfectly clear, so I take it to a poll. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | "Some" is and adjective, a pronoun or an adverb, depending upon use. It is not a "connecting word", therefore it should be capitalized. | | | | Hal | | | | Last edited: by hal9g |
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| Registered: October 8, 2008 | | Posts: 24 |
| | Posted: | | | | The rule cites "joining words" which I think of as conjunctions.
The word "some" is typically used as an adjective describing, for example, the amount of "Language" or "Drug Content" or "Violence" in a film.
I feel it should be capitalized when used in writing out rating detail. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | What Hal and KC said. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree as well | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Agree with the rest here. Some is an adjective...not a connecting or joining word. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,945 |
| | Posted: | | | | Also agree , that it should be capitalized  | | | | www.tvmaze.com |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Agree that as per the current rules it should be capitalised. |
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| Registered: May 1, 2008 | | Posts: 503 |
| | Posted: | | | | Personally I think that they should be written as per the DVD cover, and not via this capitalisation nonsense. To me the rating details on a DVD is apparent as a sentence written as prose. It is not a title, or a name so therefore should all be lower case except the first letter of the first word, which starts the sentence. Amending this frankly odd rlule would save on discussions like this and also prevent any ambiguity when it comes to contributions and submissions. I have seen a few 'no' votes tossed about when a user has submitted an update but has not captalised the rating details... I mean we take the Title, Edition, and Overview of the DVD straight from the cover, so why not the rating details? Crazy.
Anyway, rant over... just thought I'd put in my 5 pence worth. It's just that I can forsee many queries involving "what is an adjoining word" etc. which is sometimes still brought up when Titles are concerned, never mind rating details... | | | DVD
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | I completely agree and can't understand why for English profiles we do it like that but for ALL other languages they can follow their capitalisation rules. Surely it should be the same for all. The only reason I can think of for this is that plenty of US releases have it formatted that way. I am one of those who has said no to "properly" formatted releases because of this rule but in most cases I did apologise in the vote. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | Problem with the case rule is all too often they're in full caps, so we need to have something to cover that, and then we might as well just be consistent down the line. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
I completely agree and can't understand why for English profiles we do it like that but for ALL other languages they can follow their capitalisation rules. Surely it should be the same for all. The only reason I can think of for this is that plenty of US releases have it formatted that way. I am one of those who has said no to "properly" formatted releases because of this rule but in most cases I did apologise in the vote. Just to be clear, for other languages we follow their capitalisation rules "as commonly used for titles." That is what this rule is after for English profiles. The problem is, the rule isn't complete. These are the five general rules of capitalization: Always capitalize the first and last word no matter what. Capitalize all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Remember, “it” is a pronoun. Do not capitalize articles, such as “a,” “an,” or “the” unless rule number 1 applies. Do not capitalize conjunctions (and, but, for, or). Do not capitalize the word “to” when it precedes a verb.The rules only mention the 4th one, which can cause problems. In addition, those rules only apply to American English. The rules for the UK, or Australia, or any other english speaking country are different. This also causes a problem. Bottom line, the rule needs to be changed. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yep, capitalize it.  | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with everyone, also as gardibolt said we need to be consistant which would include the mouseover!  |
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