YAAAAAaaaAAAaaargh!!!

[halimede]

Every year around this time I think I'm going insane. Mood swings every three minutes or so (which is just long enough to get all the way to suicidal), accompanied by physical stuff (dizzy, nauseous, spacey) interspersed with five minutes of completely clear, capable, level-headed bright intervals (which are just long enough to gather f'rex laundry

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[snowgrouse]

Add to that the full moon, Samhain and EVERYONE being freaked out of their heads at the moment. Seems that nobody on my flist is happy at the moment:(...

[mikz]

There was even an eclipse over here. I wonder if that set halimede off as well. I hope the fungus put it away soon so she feels better.

[stellamira]

Oh. I hope you're getting better soon, when the fungi have calmed down. And never mind the question, but what are the "Dutch capitalization rules for dealing with an apostrophe at the beginning of a sentence"?

[halimede]

If the apostrophe is there because the word is shortened (like 'cause and things like that) then the first letter of the shortened word *isn't* capitalised (because the letter you'd capitalise (the first letter) is missing and because it just looks weird with that apostrophe in front of a capital) but the missing capital at the beginning of the sentence skips ahead to the next word. Dutch has explicit rules dealing with this because it happens fairly often. I'm never sure how English deals with this.

[stellamira]

Hm. That you don't capitalize the shortened word sounds plausible to me, but why would you capitalize the next word then? Seems a little confusing to me, and I don't quite see the sense. (Though with our new spelling rules, I'm not one to talk.) You're probably used to it, however.