XDG critical grammar issue

[David Chmelik]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:34:33 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote:

> On 2024-06-21 04:50, David Chmelik wrote:
>> No literate person would write "I'm going to My Garage to get My
>> Toolbox and My Hammer and My Saw and My Nails to work on My Project"
>> because one doesn't capitalise nouns except proper nouns, which aren't
>> used in that example (only exception is academic context, such as
>> Science/Mathematics Department or Class/Course, but not when talking
>> about science/mathematics or classes/courses in non-academic context). 
>> However, this ungrammatical style is sadly what most user interfaces
>> do, including XDG-specified!  I don't know that's because most copied
>> early versions of Windows and/or similar software on UNIX that had
>> program groups with capitalised names despite being similar to garages
>> & toolboxes and not being academic subjects.  It's also wrong in
>> standard/classic menus such as 'File Edit View Help' though as those
>> capital letters get underlined, may improve their readability.
> 
> The title-style capitalization is appropriate. It's uniquely English,
> and many translations address casing locale-specifically.

False; for example Apple and Windows do the same in French, Spanish, etc.: 
bad grammar isn't unique to the English-speaking world.