Talk:Letter case
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Is Glagolitic really bicameral?
[edit]This article suggests, that Glagolitic script is a bicameral script. I'd argue, that it wasn't bicameral and Unicode simply added upper-case codepoints, in order to make it more analogous to Cyrillic. From what I know, Glagolitic letters at best just had some over-stylised variants, that were placed at the beginning of the document, similarly to what blackletter or other medieval inscriptions did at the time. But there were no uppercase letters used in Proper nouns, or used at the beginning of a sentence. Adiee5 (talk) 10:20, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
- You are probably right historically; at least I haven't seen a historic script sample that could disprove your argument. But does that matter here in this little list? Historically, you could say the same about other scripts in this list, too. The Unicode chart is a clear source that it's bicameral now. Maybe you could make some argument such as (a) the list is too long or (b) There should be a "can" in "Languages written in these scripts use letter cases". But I'm not convinced that these warrant a change here. ◅ Sebastian Helm 🗨 04:29, 27 December 2025 (UTC)
Substitutes in unicameral scripts?
[edit]Some of the case distinctions are quite useful. Have unicameral scripts found any way to express them? I can imagine e.g. a special sign such as in this sentence: “i enjoy ^turkey at ^christmas.”. ◅ Sebastian Helm 🗨 13:08, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
People with lower case names or pseudonyms
[edit]Could there be a section about people who style their names with lower case, like e e cummings and bell hooks? There was a List of people with lower case names and pseudonyms and Category:People with lower case names and pseudonyms, but both were deleted. Archived versions to populate the section can be found here and here. Mateussf (talk) 18:08, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
Substantive capitalisation example
[edit]"The Quick Brown Fox jumps over the Lazy Dog" is given as the example. However, Quick, Brown and Lazy are all adjectives. The description specifically states that nouns are capitalised. German ortography is also mentioned and when I studied German in school I learned that only nouns are capitalised. So is the example wrong? Shouldn't the example be "The quick brown Fox jumps over the lazy Dog"? Or is there an alternative definition of substantive capitalisation where adjectives belonging to a noun are counted as part of the noun and thus capitalised as well? Kapten Nordstroem (talk) 19:43, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
- After editing it I see that the example is now identical to the rhetorical capitalisation example. Could it be that the examples were mistakenly switched? Kapten Nordstroem (talk) 19:52, 20 March 2026 (UTC)