comments on: when to capitalize after a colon - beplay登录中心 //www.ad2buzz.com/2022/02/15/when-to-capitalize-after-a-colon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-to-capitalize-after-a-colon from the chicago manual of style fri, 11 nov 2022 13:03:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 by: carol saller //www.ad2buzz.com/2022/02/15/when-to-capitalize-after-a-colon/#comment-1564 wed, 16 feb 2022 20:19:05 +0000 //www.ad2buzz.com/?p=12602#comment-1564 in reply to paul r. schwankl.

paul, i must say you are the perfect target audience for our posts! thanks for the word of appreciation.

]]> by: paul r. schwankl //www.ad2buzz.com/2022/02/15/when-to-capitalize-after-a-colon/#comment-1563 wed, 16 feb 2022 20:03:49 +0000 //www.ad2buzz.com/?p=12602#comment-1563 i have tended to follow the chicago way, but i wasn’t sure i understood all the situations it covers. thanks for showing so clearly how much sense it makes. you got beyond the rules of copyediting and into the wisdom of copyediting. and then, you got even deeper into the wisdom of copyediting as a way to achieve “elegant and coherent writing.” really enlightening column!!

]]> by: carol saller //www.ad2buzz.com/2022/02/15/when-to-capitalize-after-a-colon/#comment-1561 wed, 16 feb 2022 15:36:25 +0000 //www.ad2buzz.com/?p=12602#comment-1561 in reply to siobhan drummond.

siobhan, you’re right—but to minimize the number of exceptions i decided a question could be considered a sentence. or direct speech. cmos is explicit about uppercasing a question after a comma (rather than a colon) at 6.42.

and i agree! it’s often tricky having to divine whether the sentences after a colon are a series or not. a one-size-fits-all rule is always going to cause a problem at some point.

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