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Captain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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For a title...
...it's OK. I can't imaging writing "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" without title case.

But.

I come across a lot of technical manuals (ooh err missus, etc.) and they will capitalize terms to show that they mean their front panel or their flange (ooh err missus again, etc.).

This results in sentences with seemingly random capitalization:

To assemble the Rear Story, the first Flange attaches laterally to the Front Panel and Upper Body Assembly via a 5mm Gammet Ridge and Baffler Sucker.

If you read this as per Eukanuba's suggestion above, it sounds like William Shatner wrote the manual.
(, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 12:11, Reply)

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