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Why do most terms on the poster start with the capital letter (like "Corona"), only "the sun" does not, although it is a name of an astronomical object? Jan Kameníček (talk) 23:14, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
- Cause it's a title & it's stylistic—Love, Kelvinsong talk 13:51, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- We are not talking about any sun, we are talking about our Sun, therefore lower case in the beginning makes it confusing.
- I do not understand the explanation of a spelling mistake by stylistics. Would it be even more stylistic, if there was "o" instead of "u" in the middle of the word "Sun"? Jan Kameníček (talk) 14:31, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- Capitalization isn't a spelling mistake, merely a stylistic variation among letters that general rules regarding their use have been set down. (similar to how the IPA regulates the upright a (a) and script a (ɑ)) There are many fonts which only include lowercase (midieval) letter forms, even more that only use the capital (roman) forms, and a few (like Pupcat) that mix them. In design it's usually understood that typographical rules like caps & etc only apply for body text. There's generally much more latitude for single words, short phrases, && headings. I can find literally tons of examples of title design that violate these rules in fact I'm actually typing this in an airport & I literally only had to look up to find a store name that only had lowercase letters. Sorry about the designrant!!!
- && Your point about replacing the u with an o isn't valid cause they are completely different letters with (usually) completely different phonetic values. Ask anyone and they'll tell you that A and a are the same letter. In fact S and s are even more similar since the s is a small-capital lowercase instead of a script lowercase. (like G & g) Sorry I don't really want to fight about this I really don't see why the size of the S is worth a reupload.—Love, Kelvinsong talk 17:48, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- What you are writing might be true when the capitalization does not make semantic difference. But here it does. Jan Kameníček (talk) 18:32, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- Well if you ask me I don't think it's that important—the distinction between "the sun" and "a sun" is more important. && the word sun with or without a capital letter is usually taken to mean the star Earth orbits anyway; extrasolar suns are usually refered to as stars (except from the POV of an extrasolar planet). && if it makes you feel better, feel free to imagine that the s in "sun" is really a capital S and the u and the n just have an x-height that's the same as the capital height.! 😉 —Love, Kelvinsong talk 22:36, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- I am not going to fight about this, unless more people feel it as a mistake, but your suggestion that there is a small upper case S followed by big lower case letters is a real non-sense from the typographical point of view. Jan Kameníček (talk) 20:49, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
- Well if you ask me I don't think it's that important—the distinction between "the sun" and "a sun" is more important. && the word sun with or without a capital letter is usually taken to mean the star Earth orbits anyway; extrasolar suns are usually refered to as stars (except from the POV of an extrasolar planet). && if it makes you feel better, feel free to imagine that the s in "sun" is really a capital S and the u and the n just have an x-height that's the same as the capital height.! 😉 —Love, Kelvinsong talk 22:36, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- What you are writing might be true when the capitalization does not make semantic difference. But here it does. Jan Kameníček (talk) 18:32, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
