Wrong - "baka!"
Correction - Capitalization of the *b* at the beginning of the
sentence.
Right - "Baka!"
Hate to burst your bubble there sparky but generally, I've seen most with a
lowercase b(translation sites, romaniji sites, etc).
Hate to mallet *your* bubble, but most words are in lowercase in dictionaries
or other wordlists. It doesn't mean that they have to *stay* that way all
the time.
Honestly, it doesn't
matter THAT much.
Depends on whether or not you consider yourself a *real* writer. Language is our
tool, and if we're going to do our job, we need to know how to use that tool
properly. "Almost right" isn't good enough, especially when it makes us look
stupid, ill-educated or simply sloppy.
After all,it is another language, so therefore, english
rules wouldn't apply, ne?
Only if you're writing the rest of it in another language, and that's the standard
for the language in question.
Otherwise it follows *English* convention. See "The Britannica Book of English
Usage". Or better yet, Strunk and White.
To come into a writers' mailing list like this and insist that casual errors
don't matter is like going into an engineers' mailing list and declaring that
they can round all their calculations up to the nearest whole number -- it
doesn't make *that* big of a difference, now, does it? After all, everyone *else*
does it.
In other words, either simply foolish or intentionally ignorant.
-- Bob
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