Timeline for What is the origin of the rules about the capitalization of the first letter of each noun?
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| Jul 31, 2017 at 9:28 | comment | added | Kyralessa | It's interesting to ponder the ambiguities that would be removed in English if we did it there too: The famed "British Left Waffles on Falklands" could be rendered as "British Left waffles on Falklands" vs. "British left Waffles on Falklands", removing the possibility of misreading the headline. | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 19:08 | comment | added | tofro | I think (not entirely sure) the Sorbian language also used capitalization like the German until it was adapted to Czech orthography in the late 19th century. | |
| Feb 16, 2017 at 19:35 | answer | added | Hubert Schölnast | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 14:52 | comment | added | Ornello | It was the practice in English for a while too, in the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries. | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 23:12 | answer | added | user2183 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 16:00 | answer | added | Jan | timeline score: 16 | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 10:13 | answer | added | user unknown | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 4:47 | comment | added | user894 | english used to capitalise nouns too.... | |
| Jul 4, 2011 at 16:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackGerman/status/87918612760887296 | ||
| S May 27, 2011 at 4:49 | history | suggested | RegDwight | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2011 at 7:09 | vote | accept | Eldros | ||
| May 25, 2011 at 10:22 | history | edited | splattne | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S May 25, 2011 at 8:54 | history | suggested | Takkat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 25, 2011 at 8:51 | comment | added | teylyn | I cant see a link to edit your post. "Zu meine Wissens" is not correct German. You may want to consider alternatives like "Meines Wissens ist Deutsch ..." or "Soweit ich weiss ist Deutsch...". Also, some corrections to the rest of the sentence: "Soweit ich weiss, ist Deutsch die einzige Sprache, in der der erste Buchstabe des Nomens gross geschrieben sein muss." I'm a bit shaky with the "Neue Deutsche Rechtschreibung", since I left the country before it took hold, so some of the ss may need to be ß, but the rest of the corrections stand. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 8:43 | comment | added | Eldros | @ApoY2k: Yeah for example the capitalization of Sie or the pronoun Ihr when one is being polite to someone else. But I was interested in the rules about the nouns. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 8:31 | answer | added | splattne | timeline score: 35 | |
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| May 25, 2011 at 8:21 | history | asked | Eldros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |