Comments on: Amazon to acquire AbeBooks (and part of LibraryThing) http://wordlily.com/2008/08/01/amazon-to-acquire-abebooks-and-part-of-librarything/ For the love of language (and some fiber arts, too) Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:01:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: wordlily http://wordlily.com/2008/08/01/amazon-to-acquire-abebooks-and-part-of-librarything/#comment-1687 wordlily Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:59:24 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=328#comment-1687 Hm, sentence and title case on library records, I hadn't really ever thought about that before. I was thinking more along the lines of why headline styles sometimes differ from title case. I can't recall really seeing such a bad style as that, though; even capitalizing articles, even when not the first word? That just doesn't make sense. I think a computer did that. Hm, sentence and title case on library records, I hadn’t really ever thought about that before. I was thinking more along the lines of why headline styles sometimes differ from title case. I can’t recall really seeing such a bad style as that, though; even capitalizing articles, even when not the first word? That just doesn’t make sense. I think a computer did that.

]]> By: Tim http://wordlily.com/2008/08/01/amazon-to-acquire-abebooks-and-part-of-librarything/#comment-1686 Tim Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:14:47 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=328#comment-1686 Well, I found this because it's about LibraryThing—short message? don't worry!—but I really want to agree with you on the capitalization bit. TechCrunch does that on every headline. Tech people! Don't they realize how stupid it is to blindly capitalize every word? It's like people ignorant of nature writing an algorithm that colors ever plant green. Yes, titles have caps and plants are green, generally, but can't you go beyond that childish observation? Makes me wonder what you thought of Roy Tennants argument about sentence and title case on library records: http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1170029117.html?nid=3565 Well, I found this because it’s about LibraryThing—short message? don’t worry!—but I really want to agree with you on the capitalization bit. TechCrunch does that on every headline. Tech people! Don’t they realize how stupid it is to blindly capitalize every word? It’s like people ignorant of nature writing an algorithm that colors ever plant green. Yes, titles have caps and plants are green, generally, but can’t you go beyond that childish observation?

Makes me wonder what you thought of Roy Tennants argument about sentence and title case on library records: http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1170029117.html?nid=3565

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