Overcapitalisation

I agree, jr. I like hyphens. Jolly useful little beggars.

On the other hand, a hyphen in that gransnet ad about a relationship being ready or not for retirement would have been better. It tripped me up everytime I read it.

Is your relationship retirement ready? (not sure if that's exactly the wording)

Could mean you are about to retire your relationship.

So, with regard to other people's (who's in charge anyhow?) 'rules' about using capitals or hyphens, my approach is to do what I like. My judgment is as good as anyone else's.

And, besides, most of the time it doesn't matter a JOT. It's not as if we're all cataloguing books for the British Library when we write down a book title.

I can't get my eyes adjusted to lack of hyphens. I Like Hyphens. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that it is a decree originally from America anyway.

Capitals get your thread noticed on forums, where the format can look pretty bland. We have Happy Birthday threads on a forum that I run and have had to use capitals for those threads specifically, because so many were not noticing them.

Yes of course titles are 'capitalised' - in English - not so much in French. German capitalises any noun. Where possible I like references to titels to be in Italics as well.

Hyphens are useful, and not used as often as they should be, particularly in American English.

'Co-operate' rather than 'Cooperate' for example...

Hangs head in shame! ;)

And here's another thread title: Is Over Capitalisation One Word or Two? Because there's a rule too now that you don't use hyphens unless you really can't avoid it. Can't keep up.