Toby Bartels wrote:
Anthere wrote in part:
Aprés un "-" ou tiret, les régles typographiques de langue française indiquent que la minuscule est de régle
Par contre, aprés un numéro ou une lettre de classification, majuscule:
You have specific *rules* for this sort of thing? So precise that it goes one way in one place and another in the other? Your Academy is insane!!!
*Some* French have a passion for language stylistics that is incomprehensible to the anglophone community. It is a far stronger influence in French poetry than in English where we tend to become obsessed with the requirement that poetry should mean something. French school teachers also have a passion for the "dictée" long after the need for spelling tests has run its course.
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