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Chick Loser
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:27 am
Post subject: capital after semicolon: is it legal |
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Hello,
I need to know whether it is legal to follow a semicolon by ( a capital
letter in english.
In particular, what is the right way to capitalize the message:
"Error encountered: insufficient data."
And to translate this message into other languages, will there be
capitalization problems if I ask one translator to translate the
LHS and another to separately translate the RHS?
Thanks!!!
C.L.
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Don Phillipson
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 6:23 pm
Post subject: Re: capital after semicolon: is it legal |
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"Chick Loser" <chickloser@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e0ea39c8.0410021927.60495a75@posting.google.com...
| Quote: | I need to know whether it is legal to follow a semicolon by ( a capital
letter in english.
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This is not a matter of law but style or convention,
documented in style manuals, e.g. the Chicago
Manual of Style. Most disapprove this usage i.e.
require a capital letter only following a period or
other mark of a completed sentence (e.g. ?)
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
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MC
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 2:56 am
Post subject: Re: capital after semicolon: is it legal |
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| Quote: | I need to know whether it is legal to follow a semicolon by ( a capital
letter in english.
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Shom econfusion, shurely? This is a colon, not a semicolon.
| Quote: | This is not a matter of law but style or convention,
documented in style manuals, e.g. the Chicago
Manual of Style. Most disapprove this usage i.e.
require a capital letter only following a period or
other mark of a completed sentence (e.g. ?)
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The house rule on colons at Time-Life books is: If what follows the
colon can stand on its own as a sentence, the first word following it
gets a capital; if not, it's lower case.
Is this a fairly standard thing in AmE?
--
That reminds me of a story thatıs so dirty
Iım ashamed to think of it myself.
--S.J. Perelman
KILL TROLLS: http://www.schmuckwithanunderwood.com/trolls.htm
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Cece
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:38 pm
Post subject: Re: capital after semicolon: is it legal |
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MC <copespaz@mapca.inter.net> wrote in message news:<copespaz-D04E12.16563603102004@news.snafu.de>...
| Quote: | I need to know whether it is legal to follow a semicolon by ( a capital
letter in english.
Shom econfusion, shurely? This is a colon, not a semicolon.
This is not a matter of law but style or convention,
documented in style manuals, e.g. the Chicago
Manual of Style. Most disapprove this usage i.e.
require a capital letter only following a period or
other mark of a completed sentence (e.g. ?)
The house rule on colons at Time-Life books is: If what follows the
colon can stand on its own as a sentence, the first word following it
gets a capital; if not, it's lower case.
Is this a fairly standard thing in AmE?
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A semicolon ( and a colon ( are different marks of punctuation. A
semicolon is used to link two independent clauses instead of using a
conjunction (like "and). A colon is used to indicate an explanation,
or a list, following an introduction. A colon may be followed by a
capital letter if what follows it is an independent clause, a
sentence.
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