[Forum] RE: italics for foreign words

[quote='finison' pid='2216' dateline='1301417504'] I have learned that if a foreign word is well known in another language it does not need to be in italic. To my knowledge, only foreign words that a reader may not already know need to be in italic. I am trying to think of an example of a well know

[Forum] italics for foreign words

I have learned that if a foreign word is well known in another language it does not need to be in italic. To my knowledge, only foreign words that a reader may not already know need to be in italic. I am trying to think of an example of a well known foreign word that you could leave in the roman typ

[Forum] Foreign Ministry capitalization

If the full name of an administrative body isn't used, would the administrative body be in lowercase? When referring to the German Foreign Ministry (capitalized according to 8.63: Administrative bodies), would the following be correct: "My staff drove negotiations with their foreign ministry cont

[Forum] Italicize foreign words in English dialogue

Per CMS 11.85 (15th ed.), dialogue in a foreign language can be set roman. Also per various other CMS rules, words that are foreign (and not proper nouns, and not in M-W) should/could be set ital at first (or every occurrence) within roman text. But what about dialogue in English that includes forei

[Forum] RE: Italicize names of foreign government programs?

I concur with Panglossy. I just edited a book with many of these foreign terms, and proper nouns in a foreign language are not italicized. And welcome to the forum! [img]http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_4488.gif[/img]

[Forum] Foreign slogans

When writing a slogan in a foreign language within the body of a text does the need for quotation marks (because it's a slogan) take precedence over the need for italics (because it's foreign)? Please tell me I don't need know both as that looks plain goofy! :-)

[Forum] RE: Punctuation in italics or roman?

This is one of the areas where CMOS comes up a bit short, IMO. I recently struggled with a similar issue here: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5829 My preference is to treat a foreign term like a title when it comes to italicizing punctuation. If the punctuation is

[Forum] RE: Foreign language being spoken

I think the brackets look strange and it won't be clear what they even mean. I've seen italics used for dialog that is actually in a foreign language, but hmm for English translation of a foreign language ... how about leaving it in roman, but adding something to the dialog tags like, "he said to h

[Forum] RE: Capitalization & foreign language

The way you have it capped and styled is exactly the way it should be done, and the way I would do it too. Cap the foreign words just as if they were in English.

[Forum] RE: Ital or quotes for foreign song titles?

Did you solve this? The first example they give under song titles is a foreign title, which they treat like other song titles—roman, in quote marks. But they use sentence case, which they recommend for foreign titles, capitalizing only the first word and any proper names/nouns. Here is the link: ht