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| Registered: March 18, 2007 |  Posts: 426 |
| | Posted: | | | | I know I've said it before, but the rules really should define what "joining words" are. I already know that articles (the, a) and prepositions (in, before, without, close to, etc...) are written in lower case. But what e.g. about :
* circumpositions: "Rich from Now on" or "Rich from Now On" ?
* ambipositions: "Partying the Whole Night through" or "Partying the Whole Night Through" ?
* relative pronouns: "The One where Ross Kisses Rachel" or "The One Where Ross Kisses Rachel" ?
(See Wikipedia for the exact meaning of these grammatical terminology).
(And throwing in a poll to see what everyone would make of it). |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Posts: 426 |
| | Posted: | | | | PS: obviously "and" and "or" are also joining words. I'm however not sure what their grammatical term are (conjunctions?). |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Generally speaking any word over four letters is capitalized in titles.
The preposition 'on' normally would not be capitalized, however, it is not being used as a preposition in this case, and therefore, it should be capitalized.
I voted to capitalize all three. | | | | Hal | | | | Last edited: by hal9g |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Posts: 426 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
Generally speaking any word over four letters is capitalized in titles.
Wow, that's QUITE a bend from the rules. The last thing I would think of in determining whether a word is a joining word or not, is count the characters! Just proves my point that we need more clarity since I've already seen some titles changing back and forth. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 742 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, since it's fine to count words when it comes to names, why not count letters when it comes to titles?  | | | | Lutz |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Repter: Quote:
Quoting hal9g:
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Generally speaking any word over four letters is capitalized in titles.
Wow, that's QUITE a bend from the rules. The last thing I would think of in determining whether a word is a joining word or not, is count the characters!
Just proves my point that we need more clarity since I've already seen some titles changing back and forth. Hal was speaking in general terms as far as capitalization goes. He wasn't referring to joining words per se. That's how I understood him  . | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
Quoting Repter:
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Quoting hal9g:
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Generally speaking any word over four letters is capitalized in titles.
Wow, that's QUITE a bend from the rules. The last thing I would think of in determining whether a word is a joining word or not, is count the characters!
Just proves my point that we need more clarity since I've already seen some titles changing back and forth.
Hal was speaking in general terms as far as capitalization goes. He wasn't referring to joining words per se. That's how I understood him . That would be correct. | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Posts: 426 |
| | Posted: | | | | To be honest, I am quite surprised that no one can come up with the answer, and that there is no consensus either (and even very little interest also, considering the low traffic here).
If there's one place where inconsistencies are immediately noticed, it is in the titles, because the titles are the only DVD characteristics that you normally always see regardless of what you are doing in DVD Profiler. People are holding numerous and endless discussions about spelling of actor's names but apparently they don't care about how the title should be written ?!
Weird... | | | | Last edited: by hevanw |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,695 |
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