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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,744 |
| Posted: | | | | I'm not asking Oxford dictionary or anything, I'm asking Invelos DVD Profiler.
What's with the capitalization of "with" versus "With" in titles?
For example: What about Die Hard with a Vengeance or An Evening With Kevin Smith.
Ich checked my own database (titles and episode dividers) and there doesn't seem any winning side for this. | | | Karsten DVD Collectors Online
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Registered: June 6, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 950 |
| Posted: | | | | In my collection all but one title have with and not With. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | Take it from the cover, whichever way it appears...so be it | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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| Posted: | | | | Quoting Winston Smith: Quote: Take it from the cover, whichever way it appears...so be it Funny guy you are... | | | Karsten DVD Collectors Online
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,744 |
| Posted: | | | | For the statistic, I also have more lower case withs than upper case withs:
Upper Case:
<Title>Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself</Title> <OriginalTitle>Die Hard: With a Vengeance</OriginalTitle> <OriginalTitle>Married... With Children: Season 1</OriginalTitle> <OriginalTitle>Just Go With It</OriginalTitle> <Title>An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder</Title> <Title>An Evening With Kevin Smith</Title> <OriginalTitle>You Don't Mess With the Zohan</OriginalTitle> <Title>Come Fly With Me: Season 1</Title> <Title>Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith</Title> <Divider Caption="3.13 With Intent to Die" Type="Episode"/>
Lower Case:
<Divider Caption="1.06 Sealed with a Kismet: Part 1" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.07 Sealed with a Kismet: Part 2" Type="Episode"/> <Title>Hobo with a Shotgun</Title> <OriginalTitle>Die Hard with a Vengeance</OriginalTitle> <Divider Caption="1.07 Once in Love with Harry" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.16 Dances with Tools" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="4.05 To the Gestapo with Love" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="4.07 Never Play Cards with Strangers" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.03 Incident with an Executioner" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="3.12 Wrestling with Demons" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.18 The Man with the Bone" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="3.01 Weekend in Bangkok with Two Olympic" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="6.24 Baseball Was Better with Steroids" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="4.18 Friends with Benefits" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="3.08 Life with Father" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.02 Christmas with the Joker" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="7.07 Conversations with Dead People" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="4.04 Lease with an Option to Die" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.15 The Man with Nine Lives" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="6.07 Once More, with Feeling" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.03 Fifteen with Wanda" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.15 Gone with the Will" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.18 Brush with Greatness" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.10 Stay with the Dead" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.18 An Old Flame with a New Wick" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.08 Don't Fool with a Phantom" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.15 The Trouble with Tribbles" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="6.03 Greene with Envy" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="3.22 Dog with Two Bones" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.06 Did You Check with the Captain of t" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.06 To Sledge, with Love" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="4.17 I Merely Slept with a Commie" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="3.14 I Won't Die with a Little Help from My Friends: Part 1" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="3.15 I Won't Die with a Little Help from My Friends: Part 2" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.03 Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.16 Say It with Bullets" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="5.15 Married with Fishsticks" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead T" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.05 The Girl with Two Breasts" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.21 Sunday in the Park with George" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.07 The Girl with the Curl" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="6.15 I'd Like to Start with the Cat" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="4.21 The Trouble with Harry" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="3.08 Sleuthing with the Enemy" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="3.24 To Russia with Love" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="1.17 Sunday in the Park with Fran" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="3.22 Just Once with Aunt Sophie" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="3.06 The Girl with One Heart" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="4.22 The Little Town with an Accent" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.01 The Man with Two Legs" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.14 Those Big Pink Things with Coconut" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="2.16 Can You Eat Human Flesh with Wooden" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="7.21 Gumby with a Pokey" Type="Episode"/> <Divider Caption="5.21 The Boy with the Answer" Type="Episode"/>
And these lists don't include all the "The One with" from Friends. | | | Karsten DVD Collectors Online
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 4,596 |
| Posted: | | | | While it's not terribly wrong to capitalize the preposition "with" in a title, following the 3/4 letter preposition size limit, and to maintain consistency throughout the database, I would not capitalize it. Unless of course the title on the DVD cover is mixed case and it is capitalized there . | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection | | | Last edited: by Bad Father |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | Dj Wasn't trying to be funny. That is the answer. Are you suggredting that it should be db evening with etc, hsrdly | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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Registered: November 24, 2008 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,282 |
| Posted: | | | | I didn't understand you either, Mr. WS. You can't take the capitilization directly from the cover. It's clearly all capitals. That's the question under discussion and DJ was showing you the cover to make that clear. Or so he thought. Unless you're suggesting it has to be 'AN EVENING WITH KEVIN SMITH 2: EVENING HARDER' | | | Last edited: by GreyHulk |
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Registered: October 30, 2008 | Posts: 1,249 |
| Posted: | | | | Since proper American English rules say that it should not be capitalized, I'd have to go with that, particularly since this is one of the more commonly known words that shouldn't be. (All titles in my collection are using "with" except for one which too is in all caps so the person had to guess) | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. | | | Last edited: by Blair |
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Registered: May 29, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 3,475 |
| Posted: | | | | I have no idea...I never watched Sesame Street! |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | I stand corrected, as usual the rules provide the answer. With would be a joining word and ad such should not be capped. | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Kathy: Quote: I have no idea...I never watched Sesame Street! Neither did I. It would be captain kangaroo and...we won't go there. | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 17,334 |
| Posted: | | | | Captain Kangaroo? Skip... dude... you are old aren't you? Did you watch Howdy Doody too? For the record... I agree with others.. with should not be capitalized. | | | Pete |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 5,734 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote: What about Die Hard with a Vengeance Die Hard: With a Vengeance | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote: Captain Kangaroo? Skip... dude... you are old aren't you? Did you watch Howdy Doody too?
For the record... I agree with others.. with should not be capitalized. I said I didn't want to go there. Lol. Yes I'm older than dirt. | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 17,334 |
| Posted: | | | | I know you didn't want to go there Skip!... but I did! | | | Pete |
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