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Mar 26, 2009 07:48
15 yrs ago
Russian term

знаки препинания и capital letters

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Какие нужны знаки препинания и capital letters в следующей фразе:

ХХХ ARB interacts with:
• the RF Government
• the Bank of Russia
• the Moscow City Government
• regional authorities.
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Discussion

Yelena Pestereva (asker) Mar 26, 2009:
What punctuation marks and capital letters are necessary here? Should the definite articles begin with capital letters?
Lingua.Franca Mar 26, 2009:
You should post this as a Russian-English question, or help us English-speakers and add an English explanation/question.

Proposed translations

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Russian term (edited): ð·ð½ð°ðºð¸ ð¿ñ€ðµð¿ð¸ð½ð°ð½ð¸ñ
Selected

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В конце строчек перечислений - точка с запятой. В конце последней строки перечислений - точка. Все имена собственные (названия организаций) - с большой буквы. Прочее - с маленькой.

НТН

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Note added at 16 мин (2009-03-26 08:05:34 GMT)
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(Это если на русский переводить).
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26 mins

Yes. Use Caps

ХХХ ARB interacts with:
• The RF Government
• The Bank of Russia
• The Moscow City Government
• regional authorities.

As the first three will be their full name for use in a Business environment, you should capitalize the "T". The last one generalizes and is non specific so there is no need for Capital letters
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: ...; ...; ... .

ХХХ ARB interacts with:
• the RF Government;
• the Bank of Russia;
• the Moscow City Government;
• regional authorities.



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Note added at 37 mins (2009-03-26 08:26:11 GMT) Post-grading
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Based on multiple examples of the analogous phrases from English printed books and various texts, there is no need to begin definite article with a capital letter.
Knowingly, I don’t give examples from the Internet-placed texts, because they might be considered as bad examples themselves. You may take any English business or scientific book instead and you will sure find many analogous phrases.

Peer comment(s):

agree Tony M : I agree, and specificazlly with your last point: nothing to justify capitlaizing 'the' (unless of course it forms part of the proper name itself) — but there is a tendency preached by certain style manuals advocating capitals after colons!
57 mins
thanks
agree Erzsébet Czopyk
1 hr
thanks
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