Timeline for Does German language capitalise school subjects? [duplicate]
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| Mar 13, 2016 at 5:33 | comment | added | Vim | @Gerhard I googled it. Seems to be a religious reason here: see this link. | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 11:21 | comment | added | user9551 | Related: Does capitalization work differently in German than it does in English? | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 11:20 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of What is the origin of the rules about the capitalization of the first letter of each noun? | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 9:20 | comment | added | Gerhard | @Vim: that's what I thought as well at first, but (again) it CLEARLY does not refer to the journal. That's what I meant with that there might be a convention in science that e.g. treats the subjects as proper nouns or just spells them in upper case for whatever reason. Or it is just in the style guidelines of the various journal. | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 9:13 | comment | added | Vim | @Gerhard but nature is definitely not a proper word in this case. Maybe it does refer to the journal, like "the flowers whose finding has been published in Nature"? | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 9:00 | comment | added | Gerhard | @Vim: this is what I tried to avoid saying - it definitely does not refer to the journal. You'd read things like "the flowers found in Nature"... | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 8:51 | vote | accept | Vim | ||
| Mar 12, 2016 at 8:04 | comment | added | Vim | @Gerhard I think in your examples Nature is a proper noun that refers to a British scientific journal rather than "the nature" as a science in general? | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 8:01 | comment | added | Gerhard | There is also the interesting phenomenon that the word "Nature" is always capitalised in (english) scientific publications - maybe that's how a upper case "Mathematics" came about? And I am not talking Nature the scientific magazine here. | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 7:30 | answer | added | Hubert Schölnast | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 7:01 | comment | added | Vim | @Wrzlprmft well this distinction really teaches me how different human languages can be even if they are thought to have originated from the same family just as English and German are. And thanks for your source (which must be very interesting) but unfortunately I can't read it (coz as I said I don't understand a single word of German...). | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 6:48 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | @Vim: Actually, the idea of capitalising only propers nouns seems really crazy to me. It’s almost as if you waste an entire case by never using it. (Also, there is some evidence that capitalising nouns enhances readability.) | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 3:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 12, 2016 at 3:23 | comment | added | Vim | @chirlu ...**All** nouns?? That's really crazy haha | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 3:19 | comment | added | chirlu | In German, all nouns are capitalized. | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 3:10 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 12, 2016 at 3:05 | history | asked | Vim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |