• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Key terms are not always proper nouns. The intent is to be able to see the headline, scan the piece and read the in depth parts only if you need to. So it could look something like,

    Status of Farming Co-op in Opforistan East

    We assess this project to be RED because of missing heavy equipment. Local Civil Affairs unit reports they believe OPFOR elements are involved. State department asset concurs this project is infeasible due to ENEMY ACTION.

    Then add like, 30 sentences of details I don’t care to replicate right now. But the idea is as this report goes up the chain everyone can see the status, and the general reason why. Generally you’re going to capitalize who, what, why, where, and when if the title doesn’t make it clear. So missing here would just be when. But that could also just be the time of the report.

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      2 months ago

      Military writing is weird and follows different conventions than normal writing. That’s absolutely not how you write prose.

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        2 months ago

        Of course it’s not. I said as much above. It’s an example of the Flexibility of Language.

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          2 months ago

          I mean sure, if you want to write things incorrectly no one is going to arrest you, but you’ll certainly get comments like mine.

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            2 months ago

            Yup. I can see that. Thankfully, there is no right answer for little things like this in English.