Re: Joining language names

Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:34:03 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.international
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday 20 February 2004 12:52, Josip Rodin wrote:
> 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" an=
d
> > > "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.

Well? For example, each item in a table of contents is uppercased. I don'=
t see=20
why would it be different here.