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>Zmjezhd has written often.. decided I should really spell zmjezhd's name correctly!
this brings up a question, which has no doubt been asked here before (but the answer seems not to have been memorous (or momentous)): what is the preferred style when starting a sentence with 'zmjezhd' (or 'tsuwm' for that matter)? zmjezhd would be my preference, but that's obvious, isn't it?!
-l. ron. o. hmm, wasn't even that aware of the capital, perhaps it was subconscious respect.
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Why a name that starts with a lower case letter should be any different than any other word that starts with a lower case letter when beginning a sentence is beyond me. Perhaps one of the proponents of such a scheme could explain to me why it should be different.
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Why a name that starts with a lower case letter should be any different than any other word that starts with a lower case letter when beginning a sentence is beyond me. Perhaps one of the proponents of such a scheme could explain to me why it should be different. good point.
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Why a name that starts with a lower case letter should be any different than any other word that starts with a lower case letter when beginning a sentence is beyond me. Perhaps one of the proponents of such a scheme could explain to me why it should be different. good point. yup. though I rarely start a sentence with a capital, so who knows...
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1) Because proper nouns already have an "override" of the capitalization rules in one direction, it makes sense that they could also override it in the opposite direction.
2) In some sense, your name is also your trademark, in which case it should always appear the way you prefer as is the case with trademarks. Ipods aren't popular. iPods are popular.
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Maybe someone can find some respectable citations of iPod at the beginning of a sentence.
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I think I've just been called unrespectable... ;-P How about Apple's press releases http://www.apple.com/pr/ Those have lots of sentence that begin with iTunes, iPhone, iPod, iLife, ... There's also the matter of capitalizing the second letter which reinforces "trademarks don't follow the standard capitalization rule".
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I don't think trademarks have a rulebook at all!!! My favorite is eBay. Their name is "eBay Inc." Go to any of their web pages and check out their logo:  Notice anything? Also,they do not capitalize the e at the beginning of sentences.
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>Notice anything?
yeah; it looks to me as though the Y is capped. as in ebaY.
-joe (rulz? we don' need no steenkin' rulz!) friday
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Ya know, I never really noticed that! Just further proves my point... :0)
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