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Visual FoxPro
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>>>>>>>>You are right. Separated by Comma it works. Thank you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Tax time soon... I wonder How much Punctuation will Be taxed for capital Gains.
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>>>>>>Take politics to Chatter4u.
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>>>>>This is not politics, it's a matter Of english language confusing The case Of letters with capital, or by other means.
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>>>>I am sorry but I it is not my fault. I really tried very hard to avoid this, but the weird spellcheck on this Computer capitalizes words at random. Until now I have not found out, in which case it would do the capitalization, and why it is sometimes the case and at other times not. I have also looked at my bookcase to see if I find a documentation about similar cases. But to no avail. So I will put this case to rest for now.
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>>>The whole issue of capitalization in english looks like a heisenbug. No rhyme or reason, no visible cause, no discernible rule, not even reproducible. Can't fix. Your spellchecker is under the same spell, I'm not surprised.
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>>Actually, capitalization in English is fairly straightforward. The first word in a sentence and names (whether personal or business) are capitalized. Nothing else is.
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>>My impression is that in some other languages (German?), it's more complex.
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>>Tamar
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>English seems to be straightforward, but sometimes not really. Look at the VFP menu Edit > Go to Line. Why is "Line" capitalized and "to" not? The answer is probably, Because they know that the Germans are right, but don't want to admit it. Nouns should be capitalized.

I'd argue that software menus aren't English per se. They're tech talk using English words.

But this makes me realize that there is another piece of the rules. Words except tiny connecting words in headlines and titles are capitalized. That's probably the rule at play in the menu.

Tamar
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