Short descriptions should (almost) ALWAYS be in lower case, unless the
short is a name, like Harry.
Personal names have to be capitalised: 'Harry the affectionate'!

They were partly in uppercase in the past, because some inventory routines
didn't uppercase them correctly, which produced ugly output when taking
and dropping things etc.

Now there is ONE proper inventory function throughout the game! It is
defined in /obj/living.c (therefore also in this_player(), be it players
or monsters). You can use it with this_player()->show_inv_of(object).

This function takes care of capitalising your short descriptions, so
please keep them in lowercase! This will produce correct output in
messages like 'Robert takes an apple'.

Short descs should also contain 'a' or 'an', that is: for an apple the
short desc should be 'an apple'. People's names or special items might
look better without 'a' or 'an'.

Obviously short descriptions MUST NOT contain '\n', '\t', and NO colours!
And no full stop/period at the end!

See also: object/short, lib/a_or_an