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Capital after semicolon: is it legal
Hello,
I need to know whether it is legal to follow a semicolon by (:) a capital letter in english.
In particular, what is the right way to capitalize the message:
"Error encountered: insufficient data."
And to translate this message into other languages, will there be capitalization problems if I ask one translator to translate the LHS and another to separately translate the RHS?
Thanks!!!
C.L.
I need to know whether it is legal to follow a semicolon by (:) a capital letter in english.
In particular, what is the right way to capitalize the message:
"Error encountered: insufficient data."
And to translate this message into other languages, will there be capitalization problems if I ask one translator to translate the LHS and another to separately translate the RHS?
Thanks!!!
C.L.
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g. the Chicago Manual of Style. e.
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- the Chicago Manual of Style.
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- ) Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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[nq:1]I need to know whether it is legal to follow a semicolon by (:) a capital letter in english.[/nq]
This is not a matter of law but style or convention, documented in style manuals, e.g. the Chicago
Manual of Style. Most disapprove this usage i.e.
require a capital letter only following a period or other mark of a completed sentence (e.g. ?)
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Spr
This is not a matter of law but style or convention, documented in style manuals, e.g. the Chicago
Manual of Style. Most disapprove this usage i.e.
require a capital letter only following a period or other mark of a completed sentence (e.g. ?)
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Spr
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[nq:2]I need to know whether it is legal to follow a semicolon by (:) a capital letter in english.[/nq]
Shom econfusion, shurely? This is a colon, not a semicolon.
[nq:1]This is not a matter of law but style or convention, documented in style manuals, e.g. the Chicago Manual of Style. Most disapprove this usage i.e. require a capital letter only following a period or other mark of a comple
Shom econfusion, shurely? This is a colon, not a semicolon.
[nq:1]This is not a matter of law but style or convention, documented in style manuals, e.g. the Chicago Manual of Style. Most disapprove this usage i.e. require a capital letter only following a period or other mark of a comple
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[nq:1]Shom econfusion, shurely? This is a colon, not a semicolon.[/nq]
[nq:2]This is not a matter of law but style or ... period or other mark of a completed sentence (e.g. ?)[/nq]
[nq:1]The house rule on colons at Time-Life books is: If what follows the colon can stand on its own as a sentence, the first word following it gets a capital; if not, it's lower case. Is this a fairly standard
[nq:2]This is not a matter of law but style or ... period or other mark of a completed sentence (e.g. ?)[/nq]
[nq:1]The house rule on colons at Time-Life books is: If what follows the colon can stand on its own as a sentence, the first word following it gets a capital; if not, it's lower case. Is this a fairly standard
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