Re: [edict-jmdict] Capitalization of the Moon, the Earth and the Sun

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@*********>]

I've added a section:
http://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/Editorial_policy#Capital_Letters

Capital letters should generally be confined to proper nouns, e.g.
specific countries, places, people, products, etc. Astronomical
objects such as the Sun, Saturn, etc. will have capitals, but
moonlight and sunshine will not.

Jim

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 17:36, Marcus Richert
superbrightfuture@gmail.com [edict-jmdict]
<edict-jmdict@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Since there were no objections raised, should we make a note of this in the policy documents, maybe?
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> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:53 AM Jim Breen jimbreen@gmail.com [edict-jmdict] <edict-jmdict@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 20:53, Marcus Richert
>> superbrightfuture@gmail.com [edict-jmdict]
>> <edict-jmdict@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>> > Currently we don't capitalize moon, sun, earth in the absolute majority of entries containing
>> > phrases "the moon" or "the sun" (some exceptions: 太陽潮, 採火, 星. We have 43 entries
>> > containing the phrase "the earth" (which NASA recommends against).
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>> I note that a lot of those are of the "scum of the earth", "ends of
>> the earth", etc. variety
>> which probably should not change.
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>> > I'd be happy to follow NASA's style guide. (except not capitalizing them in idioms as per the
>> > Guardian/Observer, etc.)
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>> I'm happy with that too. I suggest that editors go ahead and make
>> changes as appropriate.
>> Often it will be a value judgement as something like "dried in the
>> sun" would probably not
>> change as it's not actually dried in the "Sun" but dried in the light
>> of the Sun.
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>> Jim
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>> --
>> Jim Breen
>> Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University
>> http://www.jimbreen.org/
>> http://nihongo.monash.edu/
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Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University
http://www.jimbreen.org/
http://nihongo.monash.edu/