It is driving my best friend and I nuts. I need to know why Janet Evanovich always capitalizes the word "Dumpster" in the Stephanie Pulm series? Does it have any significance? She deosn't capitolize big mac... Hurm!
Thank you for any help any of you can provide. I have Googled it over and over with no answer...
2006-10-17 06:11:30 · 8 answers · asked by Jaime H 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
She's inconsistent. I read her too, but she's not always grammatically correct or consistent. Dumpster is capitalized because it is a proper noun. It's one of those words like Kleenex, which we use to mean any brand of tissue, or Xerox when we mean a cpoy. Not all garbage containers are Dumpsters. However, obviously Big Mac should be capitalized - even if the fries are being used as a hangover cure.
2006-10-17 06:33:26 · answer #1 · answered by Katie Short, Atheati Princess 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I really enjoy Evanovich. I haven't made it through the entire series...yet. But I'm actually in the middle of a Stephanie Plum novel now! It's a fresh breath from the typical detective novels. A no BS, but with a sense of wry humor, single woman working as a bounty hunter. What's not to love? And I really enjoy the Grandmother.
2016-05-22 08:52:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-17 08:19:15 · answer #3 · answered by tk_9702 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Dumpster is a brand name - just like Kleenex or Pampers. These names have come to be synonomous with garbage containers, tissue, and diapers. THere are more like that - a brand name is so popular that people use it to describe what the brand is. So you can have a dumpster that's not a Dumpster, just as you can have a kleenex that's not Kleenex. As a brand name, it gets capitolized.
2006-10-17 07:25:49 · answer #4 · answered by kdollmusic 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know how you Googled it and didn't find the answer. It's right here in the Wikipedia entry, about four down in the list when I searched it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster
2006-10-17 07:19:07 · answer #5 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. What I do know is that Stephanie Plum remains an idiot in every book and never learns anything.
2006-10-17 10:21:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know this isn't going to be a good answer but that is a really good question. LOL. I never even noticed that. Then again I listen to them on tape mostly.
2006-10-17 06:19:36 · answer #7 · answered by Jess 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ive read the entire series and I have never noticed this..odd.
2006-10-17 06:18:24 · answer #8 · answered by BiancaVee 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋