Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation?
What Is The Origin Of That?
That’s just title capitalisation in English. 😅
Interestingly Wikipedia itself does not use this for article titles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles_of_works#Capital_letters
Fucking communists.
A lot of newspapers don’t do it anymore either.
It’s still used for book titles, though.
OP is probably not English. Other languages have different rules.
For example, in Italian book titles only have the first word capitalized, e.g.: “I promessi sposi”
In French, it’s only the first word and the first noun or verb (Le grand Sommeil). But almost nobody respects this rule anymore.
Same for Spanish, barring any proper nouns
Of course, yes! The original title of I promessi sposi was “Renzo e Lucia”, so capitalized proper nouns.
Yes, but how is that not a legitimate explanation. There’s enough Americans on lemmy to see a few posts with English title capitalization.
In thinking OP may not be a native speaker or was massively failed by their educational system, i.e., American.
Here in Canada at least, I was taught in elementary school to capitalize all important words (i.e. other than and, or, at, in, etc.) in a title. Is it taught differently in other places?
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