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*Please be aware, Cedar Fort’s style does differ on some points from the Church’s style guide. Namely, we discourage the capitalization of deity pronouns.
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Sorry, but why would you discourage that? Just curious! :-)
Not because we want to be sacrilegious, by any means. It's simply that we've never seen a manuscript where it was done consistently, and it's very difficult to catch them all. No matter how many editors go over it, we keep finding more. It's just so natural to make pronouns lower case that it's difficult both for the author and editor to make them consistently upper case. In most manuscripts, we've seen it done inconsistently even within the same sentence. So the short answer is: it just makes life easier for everyone.
Okay, that makes sense. So hypothetically speaking, say an author actually does do it consistently. Would you make them change them all back? :-)
Ha! I've always done capitals- and CFI hasn't called me on it yet. :) I feel all powerful and sneaky now! Oh, wait now you guys know and you're going to give me a bad time about it in a few months, huh? Dang!
I'd noticed that most publisher's material had gone to lower case, but it always felt wrong to me. Sort of itchy...
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