On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
<reosare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:48 PM, symphonick <symphon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/6/10 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren <reosare...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <phi...@foolip.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
>>> > <reosare...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <phi...@foolip.org>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:35 AM, symphonick <symphon...@gmail.com>
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> Updated the proposal. Thanks for all suggestions.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The English version doesn't say the same thing as the Swedish one now.
>>> >>> Simple fix that doesn't go into crazy detail:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> "Capitalize the first word of a sentence and names of e.g. people or
>>> >>> places."
>>> >>
>>> >> I don't really think they *need* to say exactly the same (or rather,
>>> >> to explain it in the same detail), since I expect a Swedish editor to
>>> >> know what qualifies as a proper noun in Swedish... (unless the day
>>> >> names etc count too).
>>> >
>>> > Sure, but "names of people or places" is wrong by being too specific,
>>> > I'd be fine with something more vague like "names" or "proper nouns"
>>> > and trusting Swedish editors to know what that means, or having
>>> > http://www.sprakradet.se/10969 as a reference.
>>>
>>> Is this ready for RFV? :)
>>>
>>
>> Missing a +1.
>
> Philip, Per: could you either +1 this or provide an alternative
> wording? :) "proper nouns" would probably make sense in Swedish while
> in English it probably should be explained more explicitly, but of
> course I don't know Swedish so I can't help too much there...

I suggest the vaguer "Capitalize the first word of a sentence and
names." and would happily +1 that.

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt

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