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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup
And in that episode of Star Trek the problem wasn't that he somehow verbally dropped a capital letter (which isn't possible) but that he mispronounced the name altogether.
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Yes, I know. But it was the handiest pop reference I could think of as to the importance of knowing whether something is a proper name or merely a word. Capitalization provides the answer.
I don't know how vital that is to the world economy. But it's a rather important part of written communication.