Why uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?
Why uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?
Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation?
What Is The Origin Of That?
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That's just title capitalisation in English. 😅
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Fucking capitalists.
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Oh, you.
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Interestingly Wikipedia itself does not use this for article titles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles_of_works#Capital_letters
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Fucking communists.
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A lot of newspapers don't do it anymore either.
It's still used for book titles, though.
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In thinking OP may not be a native speaker or was massively failed by their educational system, i.e., American.
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OP is probably not English. Other languages have different rules.
For example, in Italian book titles only have the first word capitalized, e.g.: "I promessi sposi"
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Same for Spanish, barring any proper nouns
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Of course, yes! The original title of I promessi sposi was "Renzo e Lucia", so capitalized proper nouns.
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Yes, but how is that not a legitimate explanation. There's enough Americans on lemmy to see a few posts with English title capitalization.
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In French, it's only the first word and the first noun or verb (Le grand Sommeil). But almost nobody respects this rule anymore.
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