Talk:Capital letter

message: I belive we should swich the name of the article from Capital letters to Majuscule. --Domthedude001 21:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur! Mindman1 00:35, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't really think so - won't the vast majority of English-speakers search for Capital letters to get to this subject? Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) recommends using (within reason) a common name for a subject.
However, I think we should change the name from Capital letters to Capital letter, as in general, when naming articles, the singular form of a noun is preferred. Thanks very much :) Drum guy (talk) 18:16, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Change 

message: Some languages use only majuscules.
:What exactly does this mean? I assume it to be a reference to the fact that most writing systems do not have a majuscule/minuscule distinction, in which case it seems meaningless to say that they use majuscules. --Brion 23:25 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)
::I agree.  I've edited the sentence (and the following one) accordingly.  I've also stuck in a reference to the use of uppercase and lowercase in computing circles (where people generally don't talk about majuscules or even capital letters). Magnus 12:42 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)
:I would be interesting to describe here the capitalization rules for titles in English. Avernet 04:25, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Only Majuscules?

message: :I wonder where the names "versaali" and "gemena" for majuscules and minuscules come from. The forms I cite are Finnish, but they're not Finnish words, they're borrowed from somewhere, probably Latin. -Leo 18:12 Nov 28 2004 (UTC)
:: Swedish probable equilants "versaler" "gemena"--Seas 05:32, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  versaali gemena 

message: Um, the business about Gutenberg and the upper and lower cases seems suspect.  Is there something to back this up?  It sounds like a faux etymology.
: 'Tis true.  OED case, n.^2 9. -
:: In ordinary printing the compositor has two such cases before him on a slanting stand, the upper case containing the capitals, etc., the lower the small letters, ordinary spaces, etc.
: mholland 16:31, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It is incontravertable truth. Ask any typophile or typography historian. The upper and lower cases gave their name to majuscules and miniscules. When moveable type came into existence the names were changed to upper case/lower case. Arbo 22:38, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  upper/lower case? 

message: I think it would be relevant to mention that all-caps typing on the internet is often considered the equivalent of yelling. 63.135.2.27 03:08, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  LOUD NOISES 

message: :there might also be mention of the recent extinction of capital letters (i'm typing like this intentionally and humourously by the way). Richard001 06:29, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: decline in use

message: I translated the section of the five types of majuscules from the German WP, but I don't know, where to merge it into the English article.
:Historically, majuscules are divided into five eras:
:*Greek majuscule (9th - 3rd century B.C.) in contrast to the Greek uncial script (3rd century  B.C. - 12 century A.D.) and the latter Greek minuscule
:*Roman majuscule (7th century B.C. - 4th century A.D.) in contrast to the Roman uncial (4th - 8th century B.C.), Half Uncial, and minuscule
:*Carolingian majuscule (4th - 8th century A.D.) in contrast to the Carolingian minuscule (around 780 - 12th century)
:*Gothic majuscule (13th and 14th century), in contrast to the early Gothic (end of 11th to 13th century), Gothic (14th century), and late Gothic (16th century) minuscules.
Tirkfltalk 13:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation of five types

message: The tone of this article is problematic. It reads more like the transcript of a lecture than an encyclopedic entry. For example:
"However, realize that before about 1700, literacy was very low..."
and
"This practice could date back to Johannes Gutenberg, but nobody really knows."
Almost nothing is cited either.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.129.190.2 (talk) 02:09, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone