Why is it normal to capitalise every first letter of a word in titles now? Has it always been like this? Is it AI? Am i dumb?
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The short answer is to distinguish titles from the main body of text (or synopsis, lede, etc.)
It doesn’t need to be very readable because it’s used sparingly, and it’s more important that it stands out so you know what you’re reading, etc.
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The untrue story of an internet troll who thinks the damsels are lost and knights assholes trying to take advantage. by some guy whose definitely not the troll.It’s been the standard for English titles for a very long time (at least the past hundred years, probably more).
Is there a reason? It’s not very readable…
In a time of handwriting, you could make clearer that This Was a Title without having to say it was a title or putting it in quotation marks.
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It isn’t normal to capitalize every first letter… it’s normal to capitalize nearly every first letter.
Yeah, little words aren’t supposed to be capitalised, but I’m never quite sure which ones to leave off so usually I just capitalise everything.
articles and prepositions are exempt
