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WCDT: 2671-2675 (March 31- Apr. 4, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Storel:
--- Quote from: Sidhekin on 31 Mar 2014, 10:12 ---Even if The Ring is in the middle of a sentence, it's in italics. :mrgreen:
But it seems to me the articles are title-cased only when the first word of, indeed, a title. The same rule does not seem to apply to names of groups and individuals.
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Exactly. Furthermore, how are you supposed to know whether a band considers "the" to be part of the band's name? Were they The Beatles, or just the Beatles? And was their first album entitled "Meet The Beatles" or just "Meet the Beatles"? What about the Animals, the Birds, the Hollies, or the Bangles? And is it different if the band's name is "So-and-so and [t/T]he Whatsits"? For example, is it "Florence and the Machine" or "Florence and The Machine"? (Wikipedia uses "the" for that one.)
Honestly, capitalizing the "the" in a band's name has always seemed pretentious to me. It just seems more natural and less awkward looking to leave it lowercased unless it's the first word in the sentence. That's how we do it with sports teams, too, which seems to be the same kind of thing. We refer to "the Yankees" or "the 49ers", not "The Yankees" or "The 49ers".
Platypodes:
Awwwww! This strip really highlights how much Marty and Faye have both matured. And it's just adorable.
Kugai:
Well, as far as a Faye/DrunkenMarten encounter goes, this one went better than the last one.
Maybe she should sing him a lullaby. :-D
DSL:
Re: "The": Some organizations with The as part of the name can be quite insufferable about the capitalization. I'm thinking of a certain tax-supported institute of higher education in more-or-less central Ohio.
cesium133:
Oh, do you mean An Ohio State University? :roll:
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