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214 points minimaxir | 4 comments | 11 May 25 00:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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stevage ◴[11 May 25 03:25 UTC] No.43951102[source]▶
Boy that was a confusing headline. I did not realise that fandom or giant bomb were proper nouns.
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bromuro ◴[11 May 25 07:19 UTC] No.43952029[source]▶
These uppercase titles need to stop, why is that?
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pindab0ter ◴[11 May 25 07:38 UTC] No.43952102[source]▶
It's called title case and for as far as I'm aware this is a uniquely American thing.
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lazide ◴[11 May 25 07:42 UTC] No.43952122[source]▶
It’s from newspaper headlines - using lower case starts to words looks really weird when the word is an inch plus tall on the paper.
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throw-the-towel ◴[11 May 25 07:57 UTC] No.43952180[source]▶
That's just because you're not used to that, many European languages don't have title case and newspapers still look perfectly okay.
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lazide ◴[11 May 25 08:07 UTC] No.43952230[source]▶
Eh, spent plenty of time outside the US. It always looks a little odd when that isn’t followed [https://www.pinterest.com/widget34/french-signs/] [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_signs_in_Spain]

After all, which is clearer and easier to read - aeropuerto (road sign in spain) [https://images.app.goo.gl/iRcmkxvYX3hxLG59A] or Aeropuerto (road sign in Chile) [https://images.app.goo.gl/xcME6HEb4r1AnGS16].

Even more fun when for instance Spain doesn’t follow that consistently![https://images.app.goo.gl/P7cpegHC2unMsfJy7].

Talk about a typesetters nightmare. Still, better than India where a lot of signage is still done by hand.

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1. elcapitan ◴[11 May 25 09:53 UTC] No.43952652[source]▶
> After all, which is clearer and easier to read

Clear and easy to read is the one that you expect to read, which depends on your previous experience.

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2. suddenlybananas ◴[11 May 25 11:02 UTC] No.43952936[source]▶
It's like when Americans insist that fahrenheit is more "intuitive" since it's what they have experience with.
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3. nkrisc ◴[11 May 25 11:48 UTC] No.43953145[source]▶
Well the one thing I do like about Fahrenheit is that it puts the average range of temperatures I experience on nice and tidy 0-100 scale.
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4. thih9 ◴[11 May 25 13:45 UTC] No.43953791{3}[source]▶
I could say the same about Celsius as a person who enjoys tea, hot showers and looking at CPU temperature every now and then.