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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ninehours: Quote:
Could you help me with 3 titles i acquired recently My interpretation of the rules would result in: Le Monde sans soleil Le Monde du silence Voyage au bout du monde I'm sure surfeur51 and MickySpoon would correct me, if I'm wrong. |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
Quoting ninehours:
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Could you help me with 3 titles i acquired recently
My interpretation of the rules would result in:
Le Monde sans soleil
Le Monde du silence
Voyage au bout du monde
I'm sure surfeur51 and MickySpoon would correct me, if I'm wrong. Thanks |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
Quoting DJ Doena:
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I don't think so. There are a lot of DVDs with mixed casing but they are properly spelled in the database.
I agree with that. Properly spelled and properly capitalized.
Here are French capitalization rules :
***SNIP***
Correct title for the case in the topic is Ascenseur pour l'échafaud If this is true, and I have no reason to believe it isn't, why didn't they follow those rules when they made the title card for the film? I mean, it's a French film so they should know these rules, correct?  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
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| | Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
I mean, it's a French film so they should know these rules, correct? The fact that there are rules for titles doesn't mean that you go to jail if you don't follow them. For artistic reasons, an author can always choose not to follow them and I am not sure that all titles in English follow English capitalization rules.  As for what has to be done for Invelos database, Invelos rules ask to follow capitalization rules of the country of origin for original title, not exactly as on screen. | | | | Images from movies | | | | Last edited: by surfeur51 |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
(...) Invelos rules ask to follow capitalization rules of the country of origin for original title (...) Actually they ask to follow the capitalization rules common to the language of the title. Which is a good thing. Neither country of origin nor locality have something to do with it. |
| | Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
Quoting surfeur51:
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(...) Invelos rules ask to follow capitalization rules of the country of origin for original title (...)
Actually they ask to follow the capitalization rules common to the language of the title. Which is a good thing. Neither country of origin nor locality have something to do with it. I agree. But generally, the language used for original title is the language used in the country of origin. In fact, 99% of French movies have French titles, and I do not know many American movies with French, or Spanish or German titles... | | | | Images from movies |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
Quoting TheMadMartian:
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I mean, it's a French film so they should know these rules, correct?
The fact that there are rules for titles doesn't mean that you go to jail if you don't follow them. For artistic reasons, an author can always choose not to follow them and I am not sure that all titles in English follow English capitalization rules. Point taken, I was just curious as there didn't appear to be an artistic reason in this case. | | | 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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