User talk:Underscore

Lang tag fixing

I think the lang tags actually aren't case sensitive, so you don't need to worry about that. --Mwn3d 22:00, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm doing this programmatically, so preserving case takes a little more code than making all the identifiers lowercase. But the fewer changes my program makes, the fewer difference regions I have to approve, so I'll preserve case. —Underscore (Talk) 22:42, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that

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. --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. :) —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. --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 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? —Underscore (Talk) 12:27, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it's that I've gotten confused, it's just that that's the way I've always used them, and I've never been marked down for it in any paper I've ever turned in. I suppose I should pick up a copy of Strunk & White's Elements of Style. I haven't had one handy since high school. --Michael Mol 18:57, 9 January 2010 (UTC)