Re: Joining language names

Josip Rodin <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:52:44 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.international
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 08:29:18AM +0100, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> > > bs: Bosanski
> >
> > This should start with a lowercase letter. (As should "hrvatski" and
> > "srpski".)
> 
> It shouldn't. They are lowercase, but when standing alone they act as if they 
> are full sentences, so they go uppercase.

But that exception works for titles, whereas these are just items in a list.

Every time I happen to come by the language list, by the third time I parse
an uppercased -ski adjective, the anal-retentive language teacher living in
my forebrain starts yelling "How can you let this go by?!" :o)

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