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: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)
::: Are you sure you haven't gotten conventions for semicolons confused with conventions for colons? Although I find it stylistically distasteful, I know there's precedence for capitalizing a word after a colon. As for semicolons, notice that [[wp:Semicolon|the Wikipedia article]] states without qualification "Semicolons are followed by a lower case letter, unless that letter is the first letter of a proper noun." Can you recall anywhere you've seen your style? —[[User:Underscore|Underscore]] ([[User talk:Underscore|Talk]]) 12:27, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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