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I think my brain has gone on vacation from overuse. It's the only reason I can think of that I'd mix up "de facto" and "de jure", and use of inconsistent quoting to boot. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 06:18, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
:I understand. But while we're on the subject of your English usage, I'd like to point out to you that capitalizing after semicolons is, well, unheard of. I've seen you do it enough times that I doubt it's mere carelessness. :) —[[User:Underscore|Underscore]] ([[User talk:Underscore|Talk]]) 18:05, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
:: I've always thought of what follows a semicolon as being a complete supporting or dependent concept in a sentence, so I begin them capitalized as I would any other sentence. I find it mildly jarring when I see a semicolon used where the subsequent text ''isn't'' capitalized; Seeing semicolons in use in English is rare enough that I tend to take notice. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 08:42, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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