On 6/9/06, Robert Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 8, 2006, at 2:57 AM, derGraph wrote: > I doubt a vote would make much sense, especially because hardly > anyone seems to know enough or care enough about this issue. I'd > still prefer to make a compromise between the two extremes, even > though this seems to be a hard-to-achieve goal. Given that no one here is clued in enough about latin, would it make sense for us to find a latin specialist and pick their brain? Don, how is the Languages department at Darmstadt?
I doubt that would work: one of the main reasons we couldn't reach a compromise is that Latin "specialists" all over the world tend to use different sets of rules, apparently influenced by each country's habits. (At least, that is what showed up after our "investigation".) On 6/9/06, Don Redman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:57:31 +0200, derGraph wrote: > Robert Kaye wrote: >> Herr Redman, can you please organize a vote? > I doubt a vote would make much sense, especially because hardly anyone > seems to know enough or care enough about this issue. I'd still prefer > to make a compromise between the two extremes, even though this seems to > be a hard-to-achieve goal. Can we make this simple and informal. Can anybody who feels they should vote on this matter, please reply to this mail and state their vote? 3) Use Sentence case but capitalise proper nouns (i.e. names, places, god, etc) 4) Use Gramatical case (nouns and verbs, or for simplicity everything but prepositions)
As far as the vote goes, I vote (3). But, like derGraph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 6/8/06:
Robert Kaye wrote: > Herr Redman, can you please organize a vote? Bogdan, do you think we could make a compromise? Maybe behind the scenes?
I'd rather have a compromise, too, but, unless you think we'll start another lenthy argument, I see no reason we should do it behind the scene.
I don't think a vote would make much sense, especially because almost no one seems to care.
True.
Thinking about this once more, I guess we should make the guideline to leave the capitalization as it is except for the cases where everything is upper- or lowercase. In these cases the moderator should decide which of the styles to use, depending on the artist's overall style.
I would be tempted to agree, with the amendament of always lowercasing (most) closed-class words. That is, we make a list of short prepositions and conjunctions (I could do it), which we always lowercase; it shouldn't be very long, similar to the one we use for English. What do you think? We only need to decide what to do in case of inconsistency between releases. The "moderator should decide" guideline seems like cheating... -- Bogdan Butnaru — [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself." – O.
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