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Internet: Capitalize It?

posted by martyb on Saturday June 04 2016, @07:58PM   
from the getting-the-up-or-down-on-big-or-small dept.

takyon writes:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/03/capitalize_internet_or_not/

   Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet
   internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet
   Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet

What say you?

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• THE THE (Score: 2, Disagree) by frojack on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:08PM

  by frojack (1554) on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:08PM (#355236) Journal

  If preceded by the word "The", just about anything should be capitalized.

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• Re:THE (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:27PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:27PM (#355255)

  the sentence above is the pits.

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• Re:THE Re:THE (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:45PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:45PM (#355267)

  The Sun is lighting up The House from behind The Clouds.

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  • Re:THE (Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 05 2016, @06:57AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday June 05 2016, @06:57AM (#355425) Journal

    He didn't write "The" should always be capitalized, therefore your sentence, according to his rules, should read:

    The Sun is lighting up the house from behind the clouds.

    I just wonder how the tabloid does that. :-)

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• Re:THE (Score: 3, Insightful) by zocalo on Saturday June 04 2016, @10:18PM

  by zocalo (302) on Saturday June 04 2016, @10:18PM (#355292)

  I think I get where you were going with that, so let's try again with a citation: If a word is to be capitalized mid-sentence then it needs to be a proper noun or name. A proper noun/name is defined as "a noun representing unique entities (such as India, Jupiter, Harry, or BMW), as distinguished from common nouns which describe a class of entities (such as city, animal, planet, person or car)", according to The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage.
  
  So, the question really boils down to whether or not we should treat the Internet as a proper noun. Since it's clearly a unique entity (IPv4 and IPv6 are protocols that run *on* the Internet, and Internet2 is generally considered as either a second entity in its own right or as an experimental subset *of* the Internet), I'm going with that it deserves the capital I.

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• Re:THE (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 05 2016, @01:50AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 05 2016, @01:50AM (#355363)

  wHO tHE fUCK aRE yOU, E E gOINGS?

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