On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:29:53 +0200 (CEST)
Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> wrote:
> I received this from the Debian bug system.
Well, the adjective "english" should be "English". This may help:
Q: Do you capitalize the word Spanish when referring to the
language?
A: Yes, the S of Spanish should be capitalized, and not just
when you are referring to the language. If for instance, you write the
words "Spanish culture," or "Spanish rice," or "Spanish people," the S
should also be capitalized in those cases.
Of course rules and customs vary between languages:
Adjectives
In English, adjectives derived from proper nouns (except the names of
characters in fictional works) usually retain their capitalization –
e.g. a Christian church, Canadian whisky, a Shakespearean sonnet, but
not a quixotic mission, malapropism, holmesian nor pecksniffian. Where
the original capital is no longer at the beginning of the word, usage
varies: anti-Christian, but Presocratic or Pre-Socratic or presocratic
(not preSocratic).
Such adjectives do not receive capitals in German (sokratisch,
präsokratisch), French (socratique, présocratique), Spanish (socrático,
presocrático), Swedish (sokratisk, försokratisk) or Polish
(sokratejski, presokratejski). In German, if the adjective becomes a
noun by using an article or numeral in front of it (das/die Bunte (the
colorful thing(s)), eine Schöne (a beautiful one)), it is capitalized
like any other noun. The same applies to verbs (das Laufen (the
running), ein Spazierengehen (one/a walking)).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization#Adjectives
HTH...
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