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 ====== Capitalization and proper names ======
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 Quoted speech is usually capitalized if the quoted expression is a complete sentence (or several ones), but not when quoting just a word or short expression.
-**Ya (li) wen: "Ti yau ke?"** – He/She asked: "What do you want?"\\
+**Ya (li) ven: "Ti yau ke?"** – He/She asked: "What do you want?"\\
 **Ben (li) minta Tina tu "banju" ya, bal ku real ya yau ku sola (money).** – Be asked Tina to "help" him, but actually he just wanted money.
-Some poets capitalize the first word of each line in a poem, while most just follow the normal rules of capitalizing proper names and the first word of each sentence. Either style is fine, as long as one uses it consistently.
+Some poets also capitalize the first word of each line in a poem, while most just follow the normal rules of capitalizing proper names and the first word of each sentence. Either style is fine, as long as one uses it consistently.
-Section headers and the titles of books, movies, and other words are capitalized just like sentences: the first word is capitalized, while otherwise only proper names are capitalized. When referring to them in running text, they are normally written in italics or surrounded by quotation marks.
+Section headers and the titles of books, movies, and other works are capitalized just like sentences: the first word is capitalized, while otherwise only proper names are capitalized. When referring to them in running text, they are normally written in italics or surrounded by quotation marks.
 **//Sento nyen de [lonely]nes// xi buku ol mas jixibi de Gabriel García Márquez.** – //One Hundred Years of Solitude// is Gabriel García Márquez's best-known book.\\
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 Religions and other belief systems aren't capitalized (e.g. **budisme / iman budi** 'Buddhism', **islam** 'Islam', **kristisme** 'Christianity'). The names of months (e.g. **januar** 'January') and days of the week (e.g. **solden** 'Sunday') are considered normal nouns and hence not capitalized, again in contrast to English.
-The names of planets (such as **[?]** 'Mars') and other celestial bodies are considered proper names and hence capitalized. However, **bumi** 'Earth/earth', **luna** 'moon', and **sol** 'sun' are in typical usage not considered as celestial bodies, but as the place where people live and as things one can see in the sky. As such, they are written in lower case like other generic nouns.
+The names of planets (such as **[?]** 'Mars') and other celestial bodies are considered proper names and hence capitalized. However, **bumi** 'earth/Earth', **luna** 'moon', and **sol** 'sun' are in typical usage not considered as celestial bodies, but as the place where people live and as things one can see in the sky. As such, they are written in lower case like other generic nouns.
 **Si den sol bria ku garam.** – The sun is shining warmly today.\\
-**Yau ti du bi fa ni bumi, kom ni jana.** – Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
+**Tis yau du bi fa ni bumi, kom ni jana.** – Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
 However, in cases where it matters that these places are indeed celestial bodies, they are generally capitalized.
 **[Fact] to Bumi [revolve] ni seronde Sol, ba debe bi jixi a kada [student].** – The fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun should be known to every student.\\
-**Jen [visit] aual Luna ni 1969.** – Humans first visited the Moon in 1969.
+**Jen [visit] aval Luna ni 1969.** – Humans first visited the Moon in 1969.
-Similarly, **dewa** 'god/God' is written in lower case when referring to gods in general or to one of conceivably multiple deities. However, in the context of monotheistic religions, **Dewa** is frequently treated like a proper name and hence capitalized.
+Similarly, **deva** 'god/God' is written in lower case when referring to gods in general or to one of conceivably multiple deities. However, in the context of monotheistic religions, **Deva** is frequently treated as a proper name and hence capitalized.
 Some names consist of short phrases in Lugamun. In such cases, the first word is always capitalized. Otherwise, any prepositions and conjunctions are written in lower case, while all other words are capitalized.