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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Ideologies - Capitals or lowercase? #85569 11/04/2002 11:53 AM Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 47 Welwyn Garden City, Herts , UK Maurice newbie Maurice newbie Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 47 Welwyn Garden City, Herts , UK When you refer to an ideology with a capital letter does that make the reference related to a prescribed ideology? And when you make a reference in the lower case does it make it just a personal disposition? And why do none of my rock cakes turn out right? Luncheon meat goes down very well with cherryade. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Ideologies - Capitals or lowercase? #85570 11/04/2002 12:55 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 Do you mean as in, "The British army marks time, whilst the Red Army Marx time?" (well - it used to.) As to your second question, try putting some tooty-fruity in them. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Ideologies - Capitals or lowercase? #85571 11/04/2002 1:54 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK Perhaps because those with capitals start - as with Marxism - with someone's name, but existentialism is just personal. If Sir Real had been a painter, the movement would have taken Das Kapital. If you will insist on mixing those two comestibles what hope could there ever be for your rock cakes? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Ideologies - Capitals or lowercase? #85572 11/04/2002 2:09 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Communism, as a generic theory, would be lowercase, as the ideology of a ruling elite or by others who support that specific ideology it would be capitalized. Thus you might say that early Christians practiced a form of communism, holding property in common and supporting each other financially. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR practiced Communism. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Ideologies - Capitals or lowercase? #85573 11/04/2002 2:17 PM Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 47 Welwyn Garden City, Herts , UK Maurice newbie Maurice newbie Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 47 Welwyn Garden City, Herts , UK More about the generic and the specific. Existentialism has no single figurehead unless you take the anti-hero from "The Outsider" whereas Marxism has a man with a big beard and shifty eyes. Does the capital letter signify a form of ownership? Tooti-fruitti? I'll give it a try and get back to you.... Luncheon meat goes down very well with cherryade. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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