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Hi everybody,
I've often wondered why audio track titles are written the way they are with rather obscure rules for capitalization.
Of course there are quite a few websites dealing with this very topic.
However there does not seem to be sort of a definitive guide as they are often contradicting each other (e.g. "From" / "from")
So is there any real standard one could use as reference or is it indeed sometimes rather arbitrary?
There's always some judgement involved. I never capitalize little words like a, at, by, of, the, etc., unless they come first or last in the title, are a pronoun, or are substantively important (e.g., a verb or subject). Like:
She Gave it One More Try
She was the It Girl
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Aug 1, 2014 - 2:26 AM
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Rick15
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There's always some judgement involved. I never capitalize little words like a, at, by, of, the, etc., unless they come first or last in the title, are a pronoun, or are substantively important (e.g., a verb or subject). Like:
She Gave it One More Try
She was the It Girl
Same
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Aug 1, 2014 - 7:32 AM
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mastadge
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There are rules -- the problem is there are different rules depending how you were trained. The most basic is to just capitalize the first (non-article) word of the title and all proper nouns. These days, in this neck of the wood, the standard seems to be that you capitalize first and last word of the title, nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and long conjunctions, and leave short conjunctions and articles lower-case.
And if you find yourself confused, there's this nifty site: http://titlecapitalization.com/
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Aug 1, 2014 - 7:41 AM
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jackfu
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There are rules -- the problem is there are different rules depending how you were trained. The most basic is to just capitalize the first (non-article) word of the title and all proper nouns. These days, in this neck of the wood, the standard seems to be that you capitalize first and last word of the title, nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and long conjunctions, and leave short conjunctions and articles lower-case.
And if you find yourself confused, there's this nifty site: http://titlecapitalization.com/
Thanks, that’s a great resource. I know it should be “Creature from the Black Lagoon” but it just looks funny to me; that “f” is just begging me to capitalize it. And the "t" is tugging at me too.
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Aug 1, 2014 - 7:48 AM
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Solium
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There are rules -- the problem is there are different rules depending how you were trained. The most basic is to just capitalize the first (non-article) word of the title and all proper nouns. These days, in this neck of the wood, the standard seems to be that you capitalize first and last word of the title, nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and long conjunctions, and leave short conjunctions and articles lower-case.
And if you find yourself confused, there's this nifty site: http://titlecapitalization.com/
I so love internet tools!
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I capitalize all the first letters in a title. It's a title, not a sentence. That's the logic I was taught.
It aint logic, its a fact!
brm
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