Comments on: Writing Wednesday: To Capitalise or Not to Capitalise? https://blog.paperblanks.com/2017/03/writing-wednesday-to-capitalise-or-not-to-capitalise/ Expression has no limits. Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:14:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.15 By: Robyn @ Paperblanks https://blog.paperblanks.com/2017/03/writing-wednesday-to-capitalise-or-not-to-capitalise/#comment-6598003 Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:14:12 +0000 http://blog.paperblanks.com/?p=83991#comment-6598003 In reply to Phillip Wand.

Happy to! Thanks for reading 🙂

]]> By: Phillip Wand https://blog.paperblanks.com/2017/03/writing-wednesday-to-capitalise-or-not-to-capitalise/#comment-6596693 Thu, 14 Jun 2018 11:58:39 +0000 http://blog.paperblanks.com/?p=83991#comment-6596693 In reply to Robyn @ Paperblanks.

Thank you for taking the time to reply, that is helpful

]]> By: Robyn @ Paperblanks https://blog.paperblanks.com/2017/03/writing-wednesday-to-capitalise-or-not-to-capitalise/#comment-6591433 Mon, 04 Jun 2018 22:54:36 +0000 http://blog.paperblanks.com/?p=83991#comment-6591433 In reply to Phillip Wand.

Hi Phillip,

Thanks for your suggestion. The capitalisation of words is a helpful way of pointing out whether you are speaking generally or specifically about someone in a certain role. For example, if you saw the word “president” written in the lowercase in a piece of text, you could understanding that the role of president is being spoken of generally. However, if you saw it capitalised as “President” you would assume the writer is referring to a specific person in that role. It could be confusing if this character had not yet been introduced. Generally, “President” would be followed by another name, such as “President Lincoln.” It’s not exactly a deadly writing sin to mix these up, but is a piece of language “rules” that helps to avoid confusion.

Hope that helps!

]]> By: Phillip Wand https://blog.paperblanks.com/2017/03/writing-wednesday-to-capitalise-or-not-to-capitalise/#comment-6584993 Mon, 28 May 2018 08:32:02 +0000 http://blog.paperblanks.com/?p=83991#comment-6584993 It would maybe be helpful to illustrate with an example why it matters that words such as ‘president’ should only be capitalised when they are proper nouns.Under what circumstances would it be confusing or misleading if the capitalisation was wrongly applied or wrongly omitted?

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