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Title: Caps in automated messages
Post by: Xenonman on May 29, 2015, 09:19:22 PM

I noticed something odd in the account recovery mail:
"Dear [USER],
This mail was sent because the 'forgot password...'"
Clearly, it greets the user, adds a comma, a line break, and starts the next line with a capital T instead of a lowercase t. Why? Is it just because it looks better?

It's the same sentence, so that T should be a t. In my head. Not sure if I'm making sense.

Title: Re: Caps in automated messages
Post by: Borek on May 30, 2015, 03:05:49 AM

That is a standard SMF template.

And while I am not a native speaker I think it is the standard way of starting mails in English.

Title: Re: Caps in automated messages
Post by: sjb on May 30, 2015, 04:18:12 AM

I remember having a discussion about this at school with my English teacher and I think she mentioned that as it's a new paragraph, a capital letter is "correct", as far as it goes. Of course, that may be vastly over simplified and the conversation was over 20 years ago so I may be misremembering.

Title: Re: Caps in automated messages
Post by: Dan on May 30, 2015, 08:20:20 AM

Yes, the capital T is correct.

Title: Re: Caps in automated messages
Post by: Furanone on May 30, 2015, 09:50:28 AM

I have really enjoyed this T-retical discussion

Title: Re: Caps in automated messages
Post by: curiouscat on May 31, 2015, 02:31:05 AM

Quote from: sjb on May 30, 2015, 04:18:12 AM

I remember having a discussion about this at school with my English teacher and I think she mentioned that as it's a new paragraph, a capital letter is "correct", as far as it goes.

I was taught the same convention at school.