Where do you see this happening? Can you give some more context?

English is not my native language, but I come in contact with it on a daily basis. [Internet, work, etc] I've seen writing in English from many native and non-native speakers and never seen (as far as I remember) anyone do this. Apart maybe for stylistic reasons in titles of books or movies (generally they then don't capitilize the smaller gramatical words like 'of', 'and', 'the' etc).

The only thing that comes to mind is that maybe you've specifically met people who speak the same language in which they capitalize every word, so they copied it in English. Like in German all nouns are capitalized, so I can imagine some Germans sometimes making the mistake of capitalizing words in English that normally aren't capitalized in English.

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German language capitalizes all nouns, if im not mistaken.

I used to work in publishing and this is called “title case” and it is usually only the main words with an upper case first letter only. The Princess and the Pea, for example. It increases readability and indicates that the phrase it a title.

Your question is a little unclear. What does "what happens with an education system" mean?

I've genuinely never seen this happen, maybe you should ask the people that you've seen doing this. But here's my best guesses:

1. In English, you capitalize letters of "words that carry meaning" (I don't know the correct term, but I mean nouns, verbs, adjectives and such, but not prepositions and such) in a title. For example you would write "The Lord of the Rings". The first "the" is capitalized, because it's the first word of the sentence, and "lord" and "ring" are capitalized because they are nouns.

2. In german, all nouns are capitalized, not just the first word in a sentence, so if you saw germans do it, it might be a that.

Literally, I think some people just do that. Maybe they took Title Case too seriously or they're practicing somehow?

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