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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. debugnik ◴[11 May 25 13:34 UTC] No.43953730{4}[source]▶
Your last two links are fake. And you can check on your own Wikipedia link that for Spain's direction signs, only proper nouns are capitalized: full uppercase on conventional roads for historical reasons, otherwise the usual capitalization rules such as on highways or town roads. Whereas full lowercase is reserved for service directions (e.g. service road, airport, hospital, beach). The exceptional capitalized service directions are really old town signs.