Ryan Torchia: > The problem is if we say "capitalize prepositions four letters or > shorter", there's a few frequently-occurring words that can function > as prepositions or something else depending on how they're used.
Yes, but this applies to (non-)prepositions regardless of lenght; ‘Come On, Let’s Go’ vs ‘Come on the Platform’. > Take the problems we see with words like "out", "off", "on" > and "as". If we raise the bar to four letters, it opens the > door to words like "over", "next", "near", "like", "down", > "past", "than", "thru" -- Titles with Words Like Those Will > Look like Garbage to Everybody save Grammar Nerds Like Me. Count me in among the nerds, then. ;) (Are you sure the title shouldn’t be capitalised ‘Titles with Words Like Those Will Look Like Garbage to Everybody Save Grammar Nerds Like Me’? Are ‘like’ and ‘save’ really prepositions here?) — Piotr Szotkowski -- There is a young poet named Herman. He’s not very good, but he’s learnin’, Though he often offends Because he so often ends Alle sein Limericks auf Deutsch.
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