#capitalisation

[gendercensus]

When someone writes your name, how important is capitalising the first letter?

My name is only correct when the first letter is uppercase/capitalised

My name is only correct when the first letter is lowercase/not capitalised

My name is correct whether the first letter is capitalised or not

N/A (name is initials, name is FULLY UPPERCASE, name is lost behind sofa, etc)

Voting ended onJul 12

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[mirrorontheworld]

Retraites : des manifestants allument des fumigènes devant les locaux de Blackrock France

Action choc d'un groupe de manifestants pour marquer un mois de grève : investir l'immeuble abritant les locaux de Blackrock France. Le géant de la finance est soupçonné par ses adversaires d'être un grand bénéficiaire de la réforme des retraites.

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[manicpixiedreamboots]

Hi there! I was just wondering your take on something, or what the correct answer would be because I'm not sure. I've got one character whose name the reader doesn't learn until the third act, but she has a nickname almost everyone uses. Her best friend knew her before the nickname stuck and so calls her "No Name." I'm just wondering how that might be capitalized in the middle of a sentence; like, "I'm sorry, [No Name, No name, or no name], I just can't do that"?

Hello @rjrovano  

I thought this was going to be an easy question,  but then everything I wrote looked wrong. I’ve never been very good at grammar.  

However I have consulted the Oracle, and JK Rowling uses ‘He Who Must Not Be Named.’  Which means you should use “No Name.” It feels right because it’s a place holder for their name, which makes those words collectively into a noun, to represent her.  

 So your example would be: “I’m sorry, No Name, I just can’t do that!” 

Excellent question!  Glad to be of help, keep it up! :) 

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[gendercensus]

Will you be altering the punctuation and capitalization of names after the survey has concluded? I personally don't capitalize my personal name but use my every day name with proper capitalization and filled out the survey as such

I will lowercase everything for easy counting, but depending on how many entries there are, there might not be much more I can reasonably do.

It's a tricky decision because I do get that some people's names are capitalised and some aren't, and some are correct either way. As with all surveys that I fling at an entire subset of the population, I often have to accept that nuance will be lost when gathering broad statistical data.

=lower(trim()) is a really convenient way to count all the names spelled the same way. If a small proportion of people going by a particular name prefer not to capitalise it, their names would otherwise be counted separately and they'd be further down the list. I don't know if they'd feel it was more representative to keep [Name] and [name] separate, or roll them all together. If only one person entered a name uncapitalised and it was counted separately, it would be omitted from the results altogether, even if it was an otherwise fairly popular name. Dilemma!

Having said that, it's fairly easy to leave capitalisation as it is, so I might try it both ways and see if it radically changes much.

Also, I should do a poll to find out how important capitalising or decapitalising a name is to people generally. (On it.)

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[mirrorontheworld]

La réforme des retraites est climaticide

En détruisant le système par répartition, la réforme des retraites favorise très fortement les mutuelles complémentaires privées. Les fonds de pension qui gèrent l’argent des mutuelles, comme l’américain BlackRock, sont d’ailleurs extrêmement actifs auprès du gouvernement.

Pour le monde de la finance, c’est non seulement l’opportunité de planter ses crocs dans près de 340 milliards d’euros par an, mais aussi de solidifier coûte que coûte un système instable à deux doigts d’une nouvelle crise financière majeure. Or, si nous devions prendre des mesures adéquates pour réguler le changement climatique, comme laisser 80% des énergies fossiles dans le sol, le système financier deviendrait vulnérable, car beaucoup d’actifs perdraient de leur valeur (il s’agit des « stranded assets » ou « actifs échoués » en français). La crise financière qui s’en suivrait n’épargnerait personne et une partie de l’épargne des Français placée par les mutuelles privées se volatiliserait.

Ainsi, cette réforme visant à passer à un système par capitalisation fait peser le double risque de remettre des pièces dans une finance organiquement anti-climat, et de rendre la protection de l’environnement incompatible avec le fait de toucher sa retraite. La véritable prise d’otage est là. Explications.

[mirrorontheworld]

Réforme des retraites: le révélateur des hauts salaires

Dans son projet, le gouvernement prévoit que les salariés ne cotisent plus pour leur retraite au-delà d’un salaire de 10 000 euros par mois. Un bouleversement qui ouvre grand la porte à la retraite par capitalisation et qui risque de poser de graves problèmes d’équité et d’équilibre financier du régime actuel.