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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
Sentence capitalisation according to the language used would have been exactly as consistent as title capitalisation according to the language used which we have now.
For me both rules are as consistent as they can be. For me it would be inconsistent to capitalise any text without considering the language the text is written in. I guess I wasn't clear. I am talking about how it is displayed. When I mouse over the rating for 'The 6th Day' it displays the following way: Parents strongly cautioned Strong Action Violence, Brief Strong Language and Some Sensuality The first line is built into the program and is in 'sentence case'. The second line is the one we enter and is in 'title case'. Two pieces of data, that are displayed together, in an inconsistent format. That is what I was talking about. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Quoting RHo:
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Sentence capitalisation according to the language used would have been exactly as consistent as title capitalisation according to the language used which we have now.
For me both rules are as consistent as they can be. For me it would be inconsistent to capitalise any text without considering the language the text is written in.
I guess I wasn't clear. I am talking about how it is displayed. When I mouse over the rating for 'The 6th Day' it displays the following way:
Parents strongly cautioned
Strong Action Violence, Brief Strong Language and Some Sensuality
The first line is built into the program and is in 'sentence case'. The second line is the one we enter and is in 'title case'. Two pieces of data, that are displayed together, in an inconsistent format. That is what I was talking about. I agree - as it is now, it looks rubbish. So I shall start going though correcting them all in my collection so that they look better. Naturally, as aesthetics are irrelevant to the program I won't try and contribute them. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
I guess I wasn't clear. I am talking about how it is displayed. When I mouse over the rating for 'The 6th Day' it displays the following way:
Parents strongly cautioned
Strong Action Violence, Brief Strong Language and Some Sensuality
The first line is built into the program and is in 'sentence case'. The second line is the one we enter and is in 'title case'. Two pieces of data, that are displayed together, in an inconsistent format. That is what I was talking about. Agreed! |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
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There are no 'proper nouns' in any rating detail that I have ever seen. That being the case, proper capitalization would be 'first letter only'.
What about words like Fear, Violence? Are they improper nouns?
There are common nouns and proper nouns. A common noun is any person, place or thing. A proper noun, on the other hand, is a specific name of a person, a place or a thing.
Words like fear and violence would be common nouns. Thanks for explaining, and thanks for not calling me any (proper or improper) names.  | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Quoting RHo:
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Sentence capitalisation according to the language used would have been exactly as consistent as title capitalisation according to the language used which we have now.
For me both rules are as consistent as they can be. For me it would be inconsistent to capitalise any text without considering the language the text is written in.
I guess I wasn't clear. I am talking about how it is displayed. When I mouse over the rating for 'The 6th Day' it displays the following way:
Parents strongly cautioned
Strong Action Violence, Brief Strong Language and Some Sensuality
The first line is built into the program and is in 'sentence case'. The second line is the one we enter and is in 'title case'. Two pieces of data, that are displayed together, in an inconsistent format. That is what I was talking about. Agreed, I took part in the capitalization rule, meaning I was all for it but as it is now it looks bad. I would like to see the mouseover capitalized also. And I might add I only fought for the rule in the first place becouse alot of the US ratings are ALL capitalized and I was just trying to make some comformitty. I think if the ruling will be for all caps the mouseover should be the same. On the flip side if the mouseover stayed the same and the word for was added I would consider a rule change for all caps to lowercase becouse it would look for uniform: The Brave One Restricted for strong violence, language and some sensuality | | | | Last edited: by Mike |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mike: Quote:
On the flip side if the mouseover stayed the same and the word for was added I would consider a rule change for all caps to lowercase becouse it would look for uniform:
The Brave One
Restricted for
strong violence, language and some sensuality Funny you should mention this. That was the original format. I really liked it but, because the word 'for' was hard coded into the program, it didn't work well with other languages. Another solution would have been to have us enter the word 'for', or the equivalent non-english word, but that never came up. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | The word "for" never worked for UK ratings details as almost all of them start with the word "Contains" so originally we had "Rated 18 for Contains...". I prefer the format it is in now, but I would have preferred using the relevant sentence case for the locality of the profile. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | just wanted everyone interested to take a look at my phpdvdprofiler site and mouseover the rating for 10 Things I Hate about You...That is the way I think dvd profiler should look atleast for English. I dont know how this differs from other languages. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ken ,
will we see this change anytime? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,337 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mike: Quote:
just wanted everyone interested to take a look at my phpdvdprofiler site and mouseover the rating for 10 Things I Hate about You...That is the way I think dvd profiler should look atleast for English. What's the major difference? I know that present filter removes words "for" and "contains" if they are first word, but aside that? Quote:
I dont know how this differs from other languages. Only thing I wish at the moment, is that Ken would remove the filter that removes full stop, if it's a last character in that field. I don't see any advantages for filter like that, but it has disadvantages. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kulju: Quote:
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just wanted everyone interested to take a look at my phpdvdprofiler site and mouseover the rating for 10 Things I Hate about You...That is the way I think dvd profiler should look atleast for English.
What's the major difference? I know that present filter removes words "for" and "contains" if they are first word, but aside that?
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I dont know how this differs from other languages.
Only thing I wish at the moment, is that Ken would remove the filter that removes full stop, if it's a last character in that field. I don't see any advantages for filter like that, but it has disadvantages. The mouseover is whats in question here and if you look at my phpdvdprofiler site(which appears to be down right now) you will see if you mouseover the rating there it does capatalize the "Parental Guidance"Suggested" also. That is the way I believe dvd profiler should look also it looks better. |
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