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Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's just title capitalisation in English. ๐Ÿ˜…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

[โ€“] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Fucking communists.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of newspapers don't do it anymore either.

It's still used for book titles, though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

In thinking OP may not be a native speaker or was massively failed by their educational system, i.e., American.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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"

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same for Spanish, barring any proper nouns

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of course, yes! The original title of I promessi sposi was "Renzo e Lucia", so capitalized proper nouns.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but how is that not a legitimate explanation. There's enough Americans on lemmy to see a few posts with English title capitalization.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In French, it's only the first word and the first noun or verb (Le grand Sommeil). But almost nobody respects this rule anymore.