Can I get a ruling on this?
What is the official ruling on when "slayer" is capitalized and when it is not? I see it rendered both ways, but I can't discern any real hard and fast rules about the circumstances that require one version instead of the other.
My own practice is to leave it uncapitalized except when the term is used as an address. I think I'm imagining it like the term "mom." "Your mom" gets no cap. "Mom, we need more turkey" gets the cap. By extension, "an alliance with the slayer was a bad idea" gets no cap, while "What's the matter, Slayer?" would get it. Then again, I know I've waffled on this in the past, so I need some feedback to get it sorted once and for all.
How do you writers and readers deal with the slayer/Slayer conundrum (okay, yes, a relatively wee conundrum as conundrums go, but still!)?
Or, wait, perhaps a poll can clear things up!
Poll Slayer/slayer/slay what?
[Can you tell someone is hard at work on her btvs_santa submissions and that said person is also having way too much fun with her paid account? ;) ]
[Edit: Can you also tell that my brain is so focused on puzzling this out that I can't write a serviceable poll to save my life? *snort* Pretend that the poll question reads "Should the term "Slayer" be capitalized?" and vote on, eh? I'm clearly still working out the kinks with my new LJ powers, where one of the kinks is my inability to edit a poll!.
My own practice is to leave it uncapitalized except when the term is used as an address. I think I'm imagining it like the term "mom." "Your mom" gets no cap. "Mom, we need more turkey" gets the cap. By extension, "an alliance with the slayer was a bad idea" gets no cap, while "What's the matter, Slayer?" would get it. Then again, I know I've waffled on this in the past, so I need some feedback to get it sorted once and for all.
How do you writers and readers deal with the slayer/Slayer conundrum (okay, yes, a relatively wee conundrum as conundrums go, but still!)?
Or, wait, perhaps a poll can clear things up!
Poll Slayer/slayer/slay what?
[Can you tell someone is hard at work on her btvs_santa submissions and that said person is also having way too much fun with her paid account? ;) ]
[Edit: Can you also tell that my brain is so focused on puzzling this out that I can't write a serviceable poll to save my life? *snort* Pretend that the poll question reads "Should the term "Slayer" be capitalized?" and vote on, eh? I'm clearly still working out the kinks with my new LJ powers, where one of the kinks is my inability to edit a poll!.