Yami's pseudosig.

[The Man who was Thursday]

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This is a properly formatted sentence. The first letter of a sentence is ALWAYS capitalized. A sentence always ends in a punctuation mark, usually a period, but sometimes a question mark or exclamation point. Punctuation such as the comma, the colon and the semicolon are used as sentence pausers. Never should a sentence end with one of these.

Just thought I'd point a few things out.

• The first letter of a sentence is NOT always capitalized. There's a particular instance which can go against that. Bonus points to whoever can figure that out.
  
• "Sentence pausers" sounds odd. I'd say they're more clause/list separators.
  
• ο αλιθως; But I suppose that's cheating since it's not English. Just don't tell E. E.

 

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

Ezra Pound

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This is a properly formatted sentence. The first letter of a sentence is ALWAYS capitalized. A sentence always ends in a punctuation mark, usually a period, but sometimes a question mark or exclamation point. Punctuation such as the comma, the colon and the semicolon are used as sentence pausers. Never should a sentence end with one of these.

Just thought I'd point a few things out.

• The first letter of a sentence is NOT always capitalized. There's a particular instance which can go against that. Bonus points to whoever can figure that out.
  
• "Sentence pausers" sounds odd. I'd say they're more clause/list separators.
  
• ο αλιθως; But I suppose that's cheating since it's not English. Just don't tell E. E.

The only time I can think of where you wouldn't capitalize the first letter of a sentence is if you're starting with a user name that isn't capitalized.

"Sentence pausers" was the only description I could think of.  

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Would the non-capitalisation (no "z", please don't Americanise) be down to an abbreviation, I can't think of an applicable example, it's often seen in dictionaries, if I'm correct.

And, also you don't have to capitalise after a numerical list.

Example

1. this.
2. list.
3. does.
4. not.
5. need.
6. to.
7. be.
8. capitalised.

 

[Smoozle]

If you were starting a sentence with e. e. cumming's name, would you have to capatalise the first "e"?  

[The Man who was Thursday]

Smoozle

If you were starting a sentence with e. e. cumming's name, would you have to capatalise the first "e"?

He never wrote his name as e. e. cummings, so yes. His name is E. E. Cummings.

Also, damn, y'all picked up on it faster than I would've thought.

Any proper noun which does not begin with a capital letter... e.g.

iPods are decent MP3 players.


Antonymic Synonym: Glad I didn't use a numerical list then.  

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Ezra Pound

Smoozle

If you were starting a sentence with e. e. cumming's name, would you have to capatalise the first "e"?

He never wrote his name as e. e. cummings, so yes. His name is E. E. Cummings.

Also, damn, y'all picked up on it faster than I would've thought.

Any proper noun which does not begin with a capital letter... e.g.

iPods are decent MP3 players.


Antonymic Synonym: Glad I didn't use a numerical list then.

Heh, I picked up on it faster, no one else seemed to know.

But, yes a numerical list would've let the cat out of the bag for the more literally challenged.  

[The Man who was Thursday]

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Ezra Pound

Smoozle

If you were starting a sentence with e. e. cumming's name, would you have to capatalise the first "e"?

He never wrote his name as e. e. cummings, so yes. His name is E. E. Cummings.

Also, damn, y'all picked up on it faster than I would've thought.

Any proper noun which does not begin with a capital letter... e.g.

iPods are decent MP3 players.


Antonymic Synonym: Glad I didn't use a numerical list then.

Heh, I picked up on it faster, no one else seemed to know.

But, yes a numerical list would've let the cat out of the bag for the more literally challenged.

.. Actually, you're the only one who got it wrong. Yami got it mostly right (a username is a proper noun) and Smoozle was thinking in the right direction.

It doesn't really have anything to do with abbreviations.  

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It doesnt? I was always taught that it was. Ah well, must be another Americanisation wink