XDG critical grammar issue

[Chance Rosenthal]

Title case is not an issue of grammar, it's an issue of style. You'll 
find a section on it in whichever style guide you prefer; you'll also 
find that the other style guides disagree slightly. Here are the 
relevant links:

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/capitalization/title-case

https://style.mla.org/capitalization-of-titles/

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/CapitalizationTitles/faq0093.html

You might disagree with the convention of using title case in so many 
places, but style is a much less clear cut issue than grammar.

On 6/21/24 3:48 PM, David Chmelik wrote:
> 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.
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