It's common to the point of mootness, but: when describing the planet, Earth is a proper noun and should be capitalized. Otherwise you are referring to soil.
While we're on the topic, that's not how colons work.
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not how colons work
You had me scanning the image (of text without alt text: bad, OP! BAD!) for a : pretty hard until I settled on The New York Times message
Breaking News: Susan[β¦]
for a while. Had me wondering how else The New York Times is supposed to write that, because it looks correct.
This is why quoting exists.
Did you finally find the culprit?
After a while, thus achieving another mild infuriation. π―
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How would you write that, then?
Pretty much the same, but without a colon.
So, "Breaking News Susan Crawford"?
The complaint isnβt about the colon in OPβs image, itβs the colon in OPβs explanation.
OP complaining about an insignificant capitalization mistake in a Twitter post, while making a far more egregious grammatical error in their explanation is just...*chef's kiss*
It isn't even an error, though. It's just wrong. "Earth" should be lowercase. I can understand being pedantic, but pedantic and wrong is super irritating.
The original post is technically correct on the topic of capitalization for "Earth". When referring to the planet, it is a proper noun, thus capitalized. source
However, that is a pretty egregious use of a colon XD
Keep in mind that idioms follow their own rules. Down to earth, what on earth, and move heaven and earth do not capitalize the planet, and four corners of the earth or salt of the earth take the definite article.
"On earth" (e.g. "richest man on earth") is one of those idioms, so the E is lowercase. See here.
on earth
used for emphasis. What on earth are you doing?; the stupidest man on earth.
It's a bit confusing, but they aren't literally referring to "the planet Earth" in an astronomical sense. If you were writing a sci-fi story and comparing the wealth of the richest man on Earth to, say, the richest man on Mars, then it would be capitalized.
Keep looking
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It was an expensive victory. Dems shelled out a total of $40,000,000 on it. With musky, the repubs spent about $50,000,000.
My rule with langauge:
If you understand what theyβre trying to say, then they did a good enough job expressing themselves.
(Also I love how this post is getting loads of upvotes because people are just seeing Bernieβs message and liking it lol).
I think its knot just you understand but how quicker it is to get demeaning it is also important. The more pour spells and grammer makes you to backup and red again, even if you can finally deciver it, the wurst it is.
At some point you give up, but well before that you have every right to be annoyed.
You have no idea, how much I hate you right now!
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For all we know, in that moment Elon was standing on some dirt, making him the wealthiest person on lower-case earth.
Exactly. So if we want to be pedants, earth or Earth would be fine here. Even if he's in a building, that building is still on the soil. Even if he's flying in an airplane, that airplane is supported by air, which it itself supported by earth. The only way you can't be "on earth" is if you're in space and/or in freefall. And Musk is too much of a coward to climb aboard one of his own rockets.
Also, he's definitely on something. Might be earth
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Sorry Bernie forgot to capitalize EARTH TO MAKE IT A PROPER NOUN
Who names a planet after dirt?
Most of it isn't even covered in dirt. Should have named it Water, or at least Rock.
My dictionary says it's lowercase. I've only ever seen it in lowercase, unless you're taking about it in the astronomical sense (e.g. "the planet Earth").
See the first entry here. "On earth" is an idiom, and "earth" starts with a lowercase E.
Great job Wisconsin!
Um ackshully, can you name a person wealthier than Elon Musk thatβs ever stood on dirt, loam, soil, silt, or clay?
Checkmate atheists
Mansa Musa of Mali. His wealth was in the trillions. He basically showed up in Cairo with a bunch of his buddies in tow and spent so much and so lavishly, including just handing out gold to everyone, that he wrecked Egypt's economy for a decade. He owned something like half the world gold reserves at the time.
That's kind of a myth. Musa and the Mali empire were certainly wealthy for the time but you can't really compare an emperor in the 14th century with a modern oligarch.
Musa liked to boast about his wealth at every opportunity. Like, he would tell people that gold grows like a plant in Mali while he threw gold bars at them. And all the reports of his immense wealth come from the people he encountered on his pilgrimage.
The amount of gold he brought (18 tons!) would be worth about $1.5B today. That was likely all of the gold the empire had collected during his reign. And it wasn't technically his, it belonged to the empire.
The price of gold in Egypt dropped by about 15%, which was a lot but well within normal fluctuations. He also ran out of gold on the return trip and had to beg for loans which he never repaid.
make Felon Musk bankrupt.
The Principle of Least Effort always wins in the end.
Technically he is standing on earth unless he is standing on ice.
i am glad a more liberal judge was elected to the supreme court, but she was backed by the democratic party. this is not a grassroots movement, its backed by an extremely rich party committee. this wasnt a david v goliath.
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