points by epihelix 6 hours ago | 0 comments
It's a US-specific rule, and only in certain style manuals. Chicago, for example, does not capitalise after a colon. (But perhaps your Google or AI had not heard of the Chicago Manual of Style?)
And there is an entire world out there, outside of the US (perhaps your Google or AI did not know that either?) that does not do this.
And? Calling it a, "very odd colon rule" assumes that British English is somehow the correct one, which it isn't. The United States represents more than 70% of the world's native English speakers. If we have a rule, then it's not the "odd" one.
> "...only in certain style manuals."
And? The two most important style manuals used by millions of people to write billions of articles and papers.
> "Chicago, for example, does not capitalise after a colon."
Did mean "capitalize"? (I'm kidding of course, I know you people like to stick with your quaint antiquated ways of spelling.)
You might want to check that again:
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/search.html?clause=colo...