It’s common to the point of mootness, but: when describing the planet, Earth is a proper noun and should be capitalized. Otherwise you are referring to soil.

  • suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    The complaint isn’t about the colon in OP’s image, it’s the colon in OP’s explanation.

    OP complaining about an insignificant capitalization mistake in a Twitter post, while making a far more egregious grammatical error in their explanation is just…*chef’s kiss*

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      2 days ago

      It isn’t even an error, though. It’s just wrong. “Earth” should be lowercase. I can understand being pedantic, but pedantic and wrong is super irritating.

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        1 day ago

        The original post is technically correct on the topic of capitalization for “Earth”. When referring to the planet, it is a proper noun, thus capitalized. source

        However, that is a pretty egregious use of a colon XD