What is the correct approach when it comes to title capitalization in Latin? Since it's essentially a dead language, I can't find anything conclusive.

I've noticed that most non-English languages use normal sentence casing. Only proper nouns and such would be capitalized. On the other hand, Latin titles usually appear in English-speaking albums. Would it be fair to apply English title capitalization rules to such titles?
I have Latin in school and in all the texts we had to translate just the first word of a sentence and names are written with appital letter. Latin sucks -_-
I'll take the counterpoint to Sorunome: Latin rocks. In my experiences with Latin I believe that for titles, we either capitalized every word of the title, since in Latin, there are no articles (as per the English rule to capitalize everything except articles and prepositions in titles), or capitalized everything except the prepositions. I'd have to look back at some of my old Latin notes and texts to be sure, though.
KermMartian wrote:
(as per the English rule to capitalize everything except articles and prepositions in titles)


English lower-cases a lot more than just articles and prepositions. The gist of lower-cased words are: Articles, prepositions, postpositions, conjunctions and infinitives.

Debated: Relative pronouns (as their functions are similar to articles)
Also debated: Phrasal verbs and similar elements joined by dashes (e.g., "Flared-up" as opposed to "Flared-Up")
  
Register to Join the Conversation
Have your own thoughts to add to this or any other topic? Want to ask a question, offer a suggestion, share your own programs and projects, upload a file to the file archives, get help with calculator and computer programming, or simply chat with like-minded coders and tech and calculator enthusiasts via the site-wide AJAX SAX widget? Registration for a free Cemetech account only takes a minute.

» Go to Registration page
Page 1 of 1
» All times are UTC - 5 Hours
 
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

 

Advertisement