Re: British English Language Questions

On 2009-03-15 09:42:19 +0100, Robert Jasiek <jasiek@xxxxxxxx> said:

Writing a go book, I face some language questions that my grammar
books don't answer clearly.

1) Which words in headlines are upper case or lower case? Are there
fixed rules or does the writer have some freedom?

Generally, it's the words of substance: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and, depending on the style, pronouns.

2) In headlines, do all parts or only the first letter of a word with
hyphens start with upper case? Is this up to the writer's freedom, if
only he is consistent?

All parts, in most styles, but variants exist.

3) Are all words of a multiple word preposition like "in front of"
written with lower case letters in a headline?

Depends; I'd probably cap Front.

4) Some nouns tend to be written as one word (eyespace), some as
separate words (eye shape). Why? Which in general? (BTW, superko
underwent a process from super ko via super-ko to superko and this
newsgroup was the major origin of this language change.)

That's a question of usage.

5) While German almost consists of multiple noun words:), English is
somewhat fond of connecting nouns by "of". OTOH, specialized terms may
well be formed as a simple succession of nouns. As someone introducing
lots of definitions and specialized terms, it is particularly hard for
me to know about expected usage here. So I am classifying types,
meanings, and directions and therefore want to introduce and use the
terms "move type", "move meaning", and "development direction"
frequently. Is that just ordinary or would the native English reader's
soul cry for "type of move", "meaning of move", and "direction of
development" each time?

No. It's more concise to not use prepositions in those cases.

Kirk
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