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9 Comments9rules. 9Rules. The difference is subtle, except at 24px and over (cf. 9rules header). But it's been a much argued subtlety in the past.
There are no capital letters in the 9rules name. That's right -- a proper name without capitals. The world really is going mad.
Everyone knows proper names are capitalised, and that is why you see so many people prancing around giving the Rules a capital letter. Funny thing is, they're not even capitalising the first letter -- it's the second character they seem so eager to capitalise, as the first character is in fact the number 9. Which, really, just adds to the confusion.
You may also know not to start a sentence with a numeral. If you're going to insist on starting a sentence with a number, you should spell it out.
So, wait, should it be Nine rules? nine rules? 9Rules?
I don't know, and I don't think anyone does. All I know is the Rulers keep insisting on giving a big "fuck you" to the usage pedants, while the noobies meander carelessly from note to note, capitalising whatever the hell they please.
But fear not, for I have a solution. One that enables the Trio to continue to flaunt their unusually unused uppercase, while allowing the noobies to sate their desire for the majuscule.
Well, it's simple really.
Rename the site to (rules. Capital 9, but the lowercase 'r' stays!
Thoughts?
Andrew
Written Oct. 11, 2007 / Report /
Thoughts...
I think the world was already mad before I shot out.
I think thinking is very important.
I think you should patent this idea before someone tries to capitalise on it.
Rich
Written Oct. 11, 2007 / Report /
I'm trying to register (rules.com, but for some reason, you're not allowed capital numbers in domain names.
Andrew
Written Oct. 11, 2007 / Report /
the swines!
Rich
Written Oct. 11, 2007 / Report /
Unrelated tangent: the plural of swine is actually swine, not swines. Hunter S. Thompson taught me that.
Oli
Written Oct. 11, 2007 / Report /
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BinaryMoon
Written Oct. 11, 2007 / Report /
Whilst this has potential it doesn't work for everyone. For example a quick google image search shows that the Swedish for capital 9 is ) - capital 0.
Pointless factoid - I only thought of searching for the Swedish keyboard because I have a Swedish friend at work who has his English keyboard set up in Swedish, which means nobody else can type with it as all the punctuation is all over the place.
Interestingly a lot of the Russian keyboards I looked at had 9 as the capital of 9.
Then again (rules is English speaking so maybe it'd be ok...?
sterious
Written Oct. 11, 2007 / Report /
Number capitalization is the Web #.) way to name sites.
Mike
Written Oct. 11, 2007 / Report /
The 9 next to a capital R is so ugly typographically that it bothers me more from a visual perspective when people do it than from a branding perspective.
Ollie
Written Oct. 11, 2007 / Report /
I was having trouble trying to find the words that Mike just said, I decided to wait for Mike to chime in.
Great conversation so far, I'm learning stuff.
*Ollie sits back knowing he has nothing useful to add but is enjoying the thread none-the-less*