Post AT3MYGnCDep2uz1mhE by hobs@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AT343L9q8ocMIwimRs by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-02-25T20:03:10Z
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I am irrationally annoyed that "lowercase" is the opposite word for both "uppercase" and "capitalized." š¤¬ Time to take a break from editing.
(DIR) Post #AT34736bCWgfTUyRKS by donhawkins@mastodon.social
2023-02-25T20:03:50Z
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@grammargirl What about #ProperCase ?
(DIR) Post #AT34BMGltKTG4Mmpkm by EditorMark@mstdn.social
2023-02-25T20:04:36Z
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@grammargirl I am regularly irked by this, and I am sure it is irrational.
(DIR) Post #AT34RyT7dSMHAwUF0K by drahardja@sfba.social
2023-02-25T20:07:37Z
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@grammargirl Iām sticking to minuscule and majuscule, personally.
(DIR) Post #AT35uKBmZb6AbPSUjI by SergKoren@writing.exchange
2023-02-25T20:23:54Z
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@grammargirl My guess, ālowercaseā is properly the antonym of āuppercaseā, and ābasealizedā is the antonym of ācapitalizeā. ;)
(DIR) Post #AT35yWdmDjykNWYWSe by cwwilkie@zirk.us
2023-02-25T20:24:41Z
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@grammargirl Google Docs offers the option "Title Case" instead of capitalized. The trio exists in harmony, secure in their defined roles, encroaching on none.
(DIR) Post #AT37R5HF8VHxreCJOa by zillion@freeradical.zone
2023-02-25T20:41:04Z
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@grammargirl This is perhaps too pedantic, but while 'uppercase'and 'lowercase' are opposites, 'lowercase' and 'capitalized' are not: a word not capitalized can be lowercase, small caps, or all caps. I propose that the words described as lowercase be properly called 'all lowercase,' by analogy with 'all caps.' We informally shorten 'capitals' to 'caps,' and we informally shorten 'all lowercase' to 'lowercase.' Annoyance removed!
(DIR) Post #AT3BxgHRUhRPi95cW0 by timmitra@mastodon.social
2023-02-25T21:31:46Z
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@grammargirl maybe this will help? NB there was no ācaseā for Capitalized
(DIR) Post #AT3MYGnCDep2uz1mhE by hobs@mstdn.social
2023-02-25T23:30:27Z
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@grammargirl isn't Capitalize differrent from UPPERCASE. In python it's `.title()` and `.upper()`
(DIR) Post #AT3OSbJ5EbFgiGMptI by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-02-25T23:51:50Z
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@hobs Interesting. I see what you mean. "Uppercase" is often synonymous with "capitalized" in usage guides (see the AP Stylebook screenshot), but it's probably more clear to stick with "capitalized" so it's not confused with all caps.
(DIR) Post #AT3QVxufqCzBbOgLiq by hill_hobbit@techhub.social
2023-02-26T00:14:52Z
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@grammargirl @hobs as a computer scientist UPPERCASE is very different from Capitalized, is different from PascalCase, is different from camelCase. š³
(DIR) Post #AT3VfmVRbdqitINgqu by hobs@mstdn.social
2023-02-26T01:12:37Z
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@grammargirl I don't keep up with style guides so your post made me second guess my gut. My brain says that the word most likely to follow "uppercase" is "characters" (I read Python all day long). So I checked the stats in English books and the rank order is:1. ... letters2. ... characters3. ... words4. ... titles5. ... names(singular nouns rank the same, right after each plural noun)https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=uppercase+letter,uppercase+letters,uppercase+character,uppercase+word,uppercase+words,uppercase+titles,uppercase+names&year_start=1920&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 #ComputationalLinguistics #NLP #WordUsage #Statistics #English
(DIR) Post #AT3WlFmQIHtd5HUoYy by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-02-26T01:24:52Z
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@hobs Interesting! I was thinking about how I was using it, and "capitalized" looks far more common. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=*+is+uppercase%2C*+is+capitalized&year_start=1940&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
(DIR) Post #AT3YE8O8xFh2VmTUYK by hobs@mstdn.social
2023-02-26T01:41:16Z
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@grammargirl Makes sense, because people talk about "words" more often than they talk about "letters". The pairing "capitalized word(s)" is far more common than "uppercase letter(s)", so people often assume "all caps word" whenever you say "uppercase word", and that's what the Python programming language assumes.
(DIR) Post #AT3mTUyIfinoFobhc8 by hobs@mstdn.social
2023-02-26T04:20:55Z
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@grammargirl Nice * pattern in ngram viewer! Never knew about that before.
(DIR) Post #AT5KKb18PqgTzvorlg by dheadshot@mastodon.social
2023-02-26T22:14:58Z
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@grammargirlYou could use majuscules and minuscules?