Why don't we capitalize the first letter in seasons?

[Sanic Screwdriver 345]

I'm really curious about this. I mean aren't they the names of things? So why don't we ever capitalize them (unless it's the start of a sentence) anypony know?

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Title grammar varies widely, since it's rules fall under the same level of adherence for the content that appears within a story.

 

What I mean by that is, that there are rules for writing, called grammar. It is very important that grammar is adhered to, in order to produce clarity, and by default it is expected in a formal setting or in a technical exposition.

However when it comes to creative mediums, all rules are optional, if you know what you're doing in the act of breaking them. (For example, film: there's a camera rule known as the "180 Degree Rule" for staging scenes with dialogue, in order to retain clarity within a conversation between two characters, regarding their position relative to the camera angle. To emphasize the detachment to reality, the movies The Shining and Inception break this rule at different times.)

The same sort of logic applies to almost anything within creative mediums, be that movies, books, paintings, photography, tv shows, et cetera. The artist's addage is "Rules are there to be broken." Grammar for titles is just as much within that witticism as the show's content itself. Whether or not people actually notice, however, is different.

 

From examining the show itself, we see that episode titles almost always have every word capitalized, except for some small words, such as 'a', 'in', 'of', 'and' or 'the'. Normally the only things in titles capitalized are nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verbs. But the actual given titles (which there are none) for the seasons themselves, it basically varies depending on if a given Joe or Jane Brony want to capitalize the heading of a list or not. I've seen it both ways.

 

Aside from all that, fans can usually get pretty flabbergasted as to when an exotic pronunciation is spells this way or that.

Princess Cadence used to be Princess Cadance. Twilight's owl had some ambiguity for a while as to whether his name was spelled Owlowiscious, Owlysious or Owlishius. Discord's species was hard to pin down too. Draconequus is used by the MLP Twitter account, draconequis in episode closed captions, and dragonokis on The Hub's website.

[Betez 1,734]

I usually do. I mean, seasons to me qualify as proper verbs. I don't see why we shouldn't capitalize them. To me, February looks better than february.

[Haven Celestii 9,385]

We don't?

Odd, cause I usually do.

I do it cause I'm picky about my sentences and whatnot. I'd get bothered by it if I didn't otherwise.

[TheStareMaster 45]

Its all down to what the context is. I usually capitalise it because its a proper noun in this situation, but since the word season has so many meanings, and can be a noun (e.g. Season 3) an adjective (e.g. seasonal) and a verb (e.g. to season)  it just confuses people. 

[Heart's Desire 181]

I usually do. I mean, seasons to me qualify as proper verbs. I don't see why we shouldn't capitalize them. To me, February looks better than february.

 

That was my first thought until I realized OP said seasons, and not months. By which I assume he means, Spring, Summer, Winter, and Fall.

 

It's an interesting question. I usually do capitalize them but not always. My understanding is that you would capitalize them in a title, but when used generally you do not have to. They are not proper nouns. They are a time frame. We don't capitalize "midnight" or "noon" either.

 

At least, that's my guess.

Edited February 26, 2013 by MoonFeather

[Betez 1,734]

That was my first thought until I realized OP said seasons, and not months. By which I assume he means, Spring, Summer, Winter, and Fall.

 

It's an interesting question. I usually do capitalize them but not always. My understanding is that you would capitalize them in a title, but when used generally you do not have to. They are not proper nouns. They are a time frame. We don't capitalize "midnight" or "noon" either.

 

At least, that's my guess.

Oh. Well then in that case, I still think they should be capitalized. I think Summer looks a lot better than summer, and Winter better than winter.

[Rainbow Dash 1,472]

the name of seasons are considered generic nouns so they aren't capitalized. They only are if they are in a title or used in stylistic ways for poetry and such. I never capitalized the seasons since i was too lazy to. it wasnt until my english teacher told me that it was to be that way.