Why is it normal to capitalise every first letter of a word in titles now? Has it always been like this? Is it AI? Am i dumb?
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It isn’t normal to capitalize every first letter… it’s normal to capitalize nearly every first letter.
Yeah, little words aren’t supposed to be capitalised, but I’m never quite sure which ones to leave off so usually I just capitalise everything.
So whats the rule?
Basic rules here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
That was very interesting actually, thanks.
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The same reason we capitalize peoples’ names like that, since a title is the proper name of a written work.
It’s kinda weird that this makes perfect sense.
I wonder if people were never taught this, or if they just forget everything. Third grade for me…
In my native language just the first word gets capitalized in a title. I don’t think anyone ever explained to me why English capitalizes (almost) every word.
The short answer is to distinguish titles from the main body of text (or synopsis, lede, etc.)
It doesn’t need to be very readable because it’s used sparingly, and it’s more important that it stands out so you know what you’re reading, etc.
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