An unapologetic rant

chaliapin

quote:

but why are the first letters of all the track names I download from Gracenote always capitalised?

Eh....it would be because they are supposed to be like that since they are song titles and not sentences....

Not a 100% "rule" globally but the generally accepted method in English see here

Cheers

Jim

PS OMG, I can't believe my 1000th post was in response to a question on grammar.....but then I did attend Aberdeen Grammar School so myabe it was destiny!

quote:

myabe

tHOUGH NOT SO WITH SPEELING

Troo.....tie pin was never my strong soot....

Damn - where's my Fowler?

and if also, but,

If you're going to quote from the Book of Revelation
Don't keep calling it the Book of Revelations. There's no 'S' - It's the Book of Revelation
As revealed to St John the Divine.

The plot thickens. The sleeve notes for the CD have "Thy judgement now is near".

I also pulled two scores at random off the shelves. My copy of Songs of the British Islands (1903) follows the rules suggested by Exiled Highlander, but my Novello edition of Haydn's The Creation only capitalises the first word or proper nouns etc.

Talking of St John the Divine, who was it used to talk about the atmos. on Patmos?

The title of

The Creation ...

comically has the next line as

by FJ Haydn.

As Bruce Forsythe might have said, "Didn't he do well!"

One of my favourite pieces!

George

Chaliapin

You can try here for a more thorough discussion of the options.

Cheers

Jim

I contribute to a online music database and you have to write all the songs in the proper way with capitals at the start of all words and they don't let any mistakes go, buggers.


This Is One Of Mine



Dean...

quote:

I did attend Aberdeen Grammar School

Oh dear, I had better keep my Robert Gordon's friends off here! The old rivalries will resurface!!!

I've always respected the case setting on the album cover!

And while we're at it, why do so many capitalise the S following an apostrophe? I frequently see things like All the King'S horses and all the King'S men.

Still thinking about matters Johannine, who was it sang "John the revelator"?

Is it just me, or is describing one's rant as "unapologetic" itself a form of apology?!

Uh oh... paradox!

It used to be nice when at one time instead of a preface you got an apologia at the start of a book!

George

To say nothing of prologomena.

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quote:

Originally posted by chaliapin:
To say nothing of prologomena.

I think The Pedants Society* may take issue with your spelling on that one.

(* Formerly The Pedant's Society, The Society of Pedants, The Pedants' Society, The Pedants's Society)

quote:

Originally posted by djftw:
Oh dear, I had better keep my Robert Gordon's friends off here! The old rivalries will resurface!!!

Robert Gordon's....pfafffff....I had many a battle with them on the rugby pitches at Rubislaw and Seafield (showing my age with Seafield since they moved from there eons ago!!).

Cheers

Jim

Robert Gordon's I fart in your general direction. Same with Aberdeen Grammar (where's that then?).

Allan Glen's was the place to be. Crap at rugby (one had the choice of having one's face kicked in at rugby training or going home early - now which would you choose?) but had the highest pass rates in maths, physics and chemistry in Scotland when I was there. Selective in the best possible sense i.e. based purely on ability, with only nominal fees, it was a genuine comprehensive school full of lads from mixed social backgrounds, most of whom went on to university because being smart and achieving were the cool things to do. I believe that the current principals of two of Glasgow's three universities are old boys. Sadly closed in the mid seventies due to misguided socialist dogma.

Unfortunately also demonstrates why single sex schools are no use as I'm still shy and uncomfortable with women I don't know. Well you can't have it all ways.

Aberdeen Grammar School was also a same sex school back in those prehistoric days, but we did have the luxury of having Aberdeen High School for Girls, Albyn Girls School and St Margaret's all within a short walk.....oh memories......Jane S, where are you now!?

Oh and as for edukacion, Lord Byron did OK at Aberdeen Grammar and he certainly wasn't shy around the girls Tom!

Cheers

Jim

Jane S married me when she saw my Quadraspire rack!

Mark

I knew it.....she was never that impressed with my rack!

Cheers

Jim (reliving schoolboy humour!)

Well, I think she prefers a wobbly one............she says hello anyway.

Mark