Do you capitalize the "i" in internet?

[brunswickite]

Do you?

when it isnt in teh beginning of the sentance.

 

[akubi]

no, i don't use my shift key

 

[Drakkon]

Depends...is it at the beginning of a sentance?

 

[Whitecloak]

yes

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
Depends...is it at the beginning of a sentance?

No.

 

[KK]

No, and I don't capitalize idiot either.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: whitecloak
yes

 

[bigrash]

nope, never!

 

[sswingle]

nope, only at the beginning of a sentence, and as you can see, i dont always do that either

 

[ajpa123]

No, but I would :heart: to stick a needle in one of yours!

Yeah, Yeah, I woke up grumpy

Good Morning ATOT :beer:

 

[OutHouse]

yes

I almost failed a college paper because i didnt capitalize the "I", lost a point for every instance of it.

 

[skace]

Is there more than one internet?

 

[tami]

i have been required to capitalize the 'i' of internet when writing legal reports. however, i'm not a shift-key (or caps lock) kind of person, so in regular correspondence, i do not capitalize it. in professional correspondence, however, i capitalize everything that requires capitalization.

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: Citrix
yes

I almost failed a college paper because i didnt capitalize the "I", lost a point for every instance of it.

what type of class was it?

 

[spidey07]

Yes. Same with E-mail.

Proper punctuation rocks.

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: tami
i have been required to capitalize the 'i' of internet when writing legal reports. however, i'm not a shift-key (or caps lock) kind of person, so in regular correspondence, i do not capitalize it. in professional correspondence, however, i capitalize everything that requires capitalization.

I guess that was my question, in professional corespondence should it be capatilized?

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: brunswickite

Originally posted by: Citrix
yes

I almost failed a college paper because i didnt capitalize the "I", lost a point for every instance of it.

what type of class was it?

that was 12 years ago, i belive it was english.

 

[akubi]

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64596,00.html

 

[Subterranean Homesick Alien]

Originally posted by: brunswickite

Originally posted by: tami
i have been required to capitalize the 'i' of internet when writing legal reports. however, i'm not a shift-key (or caps lock) kind of person, so in regular correspondence, i do not capitalize it. in professional correspondence, however, i capitalize everything that requires capitalization.

I guess that was my question, in professional corespondence should it be capatilized?

When in doubt, fire up MS Word, make sure spelling and grammar check is turned on and then type a sentence using the word in question and see if it flags it. In this case, Internet will be flagged if not capitalized because it's a proper noun.

 

[rh71]

As I learned it, you are supposed to. So I do it when I'm not being lazy.

EDIT>> I guess you never were supposed to... so much for sticking with things in school...

 

[EKKC]

its spelled intarweb, stupid!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Only if it is the first word in a sentence.

 

[spidey07]

well if you want to get picky you can have an "internet"

But it's not "The Internet", proper.