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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jeroen Vermeulen wrote on 01/09/09 14:19:
>...
> How about this?
> 
> I would rather:
> 
> (*) License all my translations in Launchpad under the BSD licence.
> ( ) Not make translations in Launchpad.

That would be fine (except that radio button labels should not end in
periods).

> (Should I infer from your examples that I should use "license" as the
> verb and "licence" as the noun?  Our existing text uses "licence" for
> both).

Actually I was accidentally using UK English there. In both UK and US
English, the verb is "license". The noun is also "license" in US
English, but "licence" in UK English.

> (Also... Capitalize after colon?  As I recall a very knowledgeable
> English editor once changed that in an article I wrote.  That was in
> 1999 though, so I may be mistaken; and he was over twice my age at the
> time so things may have changed since he studied the language.)
>...

Your editor was correct if the colon was in the middle of a sentence, or
if it was introducing a list treated as a single sentence (i.e. if the
last item ended in a period but the others did not).

Radio button labels are not sentences, though, and they have their own
rules. They should never end in a period, and they almost always start
with a capital letter.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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