this letter signed by the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, is a perfect example of how some people use capital letters to imbue his writing with an aura important, heroic, solemnity, holiness, grandeur, sublimity, magic, etc.. But even if we invade the bicentennial fervor, we must not write the word nation-for example capitalized.
Here I have highlighted 25 cases in which I find hard to justify the use of capital letters: the patriotism is not enough to raise a tiny category . It requires something more, something less sublime, as the need to initiate a proper name, as we saw in the entry for November 11, 2009 . No dialed A not the P atria because it is likely to have been settled by a decree or law which named 2010, precisely Year Homeland . If this is the case, it would be a proper name.
But " L Abaro P atrium", " B Andera N acional "," E nseña N acional "," E shield N acional "," B Ander, " I ome, " M ost F ongratulations" and " V iva "in" That V taxes [...] "? For B Andera N ational (and its synonyms: L Abaro P atrium and E T each N ational ), Maybe someone could argue that this is the proper name of the flag. But still, grammatically, generic phrases. We talk about the native labarum of any country. If our flag, which fascinates me and is able to move me to tears, literally, had a proper name really, should be written with initial capital letters.
The Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of doubt , on his part ("shift", 4.33), texts mentioned that military is customary to write flag capitalized but this is solely due to "reasons of expression or respect" and that this case "should not extend to the general language." It is clear that the President's letter not is within a military context should not trivialize the military appropriating us, civilians, their uses and customs.
However, no national flags that do have names. The United Kingdom, for example, has its Union Jack , United States, its Stars and Stripes or Star-Spangled Banner , sometimes called Old Glory , Japan, the Hinomaru ("sun disc" as Wikipedia ), Chile, The Lone Star , and Canada, its Maple Leaf , among many others. But as far as I have knowledge, our national flag, the Mexican flag has no proper name. Could be The Tricolor , in the French manner, as the national flag of France is called drapeau tricolore (they do not write in capital letters), or as Italian, called simply il Tricolore (Article il lowercase if it is not the beginning of the proposition.)
If anyone is aware of a law or decree proclaiming that the Mexican flag has its own name and it is "National Flag", I will gladly recant, but I think that a national referendum could be opened for reached democratically, to something more striking and effective "National Flag".
As the national emblem of Mexico, I would go more for The Eagle and the Serpent. But here they give, and would be willing to withdraw my red circles if you wrote this: E scudo N ational M exico. In subsequent references, it could be abbreviated as E Scudo N ational or even E scudo. In all other respects, I see no justification beyond the patriotic fervor, which, I repeat, not just in matters of spelling. In other words, we should not teach, so lightly, mayusculatura a hormone-based cultivation of love bicentennial.
On the other hand, I will refrain from comment on the contents of the letter. That different people will judge the light of reality, history and the enormity of the political crossroads, economic and social development in which we live. That is the patriotic duty of every one, regardless of how they call their homeland, or you are looking to raise trivial thoughts infusions of capital strength.
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