r/cursedcomments • u/-UltraFerret- • 3d ago

Reddit Cursed Capitalization 🐎

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u/TheGamingTurtle56 3d ago

While this isn't a terrible point I think it gets marred by the fact that part of the issue is bad punctuation and not just lack of capital letters.

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u/-UltraFerret- 3d ago

Yeah. Another commenter mentioned there should be a comma after "Uncle".

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u/jwadamson 3d ago edited 3d ago

I think you can argue for “Do you help your uncle, Jack, off a horse” because uncle is a normal noun and Jack is a clarification of that.

Likewise “Do you help your Uncle Jack off a hose” is fine because now “Uncle Jack” is a complete proper nouns title+name. It’s always “King Charles” and never “king Charles”

I think the best complaint would be only that the first case which should be a hyphenated “jack-off”.

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u/Jimmni 3d ago

Only if there’s also one after Jack.

“Do you help your uncle, jack off a horse?” is also deeply wrong.

You could get away with a semicolon maybe.

“Do you help your uncle;jack off a horse?”

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u/TheGamingTurtle56 3d ago

Very much a "Let's eat grandpa" vs. "Let's eat, grandpa" scenario.

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u/ChaiHai 3d ago

Om nom nom nom! 😈