{"items": [{"author": "b", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/109680641548243670506", "anchor": "gp-1311369169409", "service": "gp", "text": "interesting - this is the opposite of my approach, which is to capitalize only proper names.", "timestamp": 1311369169}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1311371230085", "service": "gp", "text": "@Ben: scanning your posts on [chat], you appear to have two modes: one in which you do as you say and one in which you have pretty standard capitalization. For and example of the latter, see your 2011-03-29 post in response to my landlord situation.\n
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\nI like capitalization for telling me where sentences begin and end but don't find marking proper nouns useful. Do you just feel oppositely?", "timestamp": 1311371230}, {"author": "b", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/109680641548243670506", "anchor": "gp-1311372616814", "service": "gp", "text": "@Jeff: i was talking about my informal mode: i often just use standard capitalization.\n
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\nthe underlying attitude is that capitalization is generally more trouble than it's worth, but that it's more important to show respect by rendering people's (and usually organizations') names in their preferred manner.\n
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\n(retyping because comment got mysteriously deleted when i tried to edit it to fix a minor error.)", "timestamp": 1311372616}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1311375415053", "service": "gp", "text": "@ben: indication of respect can be a problem with my system. I sometimes have sentences like: \"Mary, bill, and sue said they'll be there\", and people don't see why mary gets their name capitalized but bill and sue don't.", "timestamp": 1311375415}, {"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/110400351481753576453", "anchor": "gp-1311391146104", "service": "gp", "text": "wait, jeff, has your landlord situation gotten worse?", "timestamp": 1311391146}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1311422685035", "service": "gp", "text": "@Alex: we're going to court tuesday morning to attempt to convert our temporary harassment prevention restraining order into a permanent one", "timestamp": 1311422685}, {"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/117346402173047680184", "anchor": "gp-1344363377078", "service": "gp", "text": "I like what you said about showing respect by rendering people's names in their preferred manner.\u00a0 It's interesting when the preferred manner is lower case.\u00a0 For example, my nick/username is clahey, never Clahey.\n
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\nThere's also the issue of what to do when starting a sentence with a name that is preferentially not capitalized.\u00a0 It doesn't come up often for me since I very rarely refer to myself in the third person.\u00a0 I guess I could say \"clahey is my nick\", but \"my nick is clahey\" feels more normal.\u00a0 I would prefer people kept it lower case even at the beginning of a sentence.", "timestamp": 1344363377}]}