MITT EN 1.0

MITT-EN-H

modern international harmonized english

Primary features

Capitalization is harmonized with other major western languages, such as spanish, portuguese and french. Capitalization is generally used in proper nouns only, rarely in other scenarios.

Examples: internet, wifi (or wi-fi), monday, september, father’s day, christmas eve, the middle ages, victorian era, big bang theory, president Jefferson, senator Sanders, princess Diana, dad, mom, uncle Tom, Charles Perry jr., mr. Smith, mrs. Johnson, dr. Norman. However: FIFA, NHL, PTSD, IT sector, MBA degree.

A common noun or adjective that is formed of a capitalized proper noun is not capitalized: Asia => asian, Paris => parisian, South Africa => south-african, New York => newyorker (or new-yorker), Sweden => ‘swede’ means a swedish person, Denmark => danish language, Franz Kafka => kafkaesque, Sigmund Freud => freudian psychoanalysis.

Features of secondary importance

Text sample with recommended style of punctuation:

“I think the coffee shop was called ‘The Daydreamer’ at that time”, the woman said, “if I remember correctly. It was long ago — time passes so quickly.”

“Was it really ‘The Daydreamer’?”, I replied. “I think the name was longer than that.”

Then she said: “That is possible. I wish I remembered it more clearly. The owner was an elder lady, who said ‘Beautiful day, Victoria!’ to me whenever I walked in.”