Chicago-style changes

From The Washington Post: “Nine important changes to The Chicago Manual of Style — and why they matter.”

I have the now-outdated seventeenth edition, and I think I just saved $75 by reading this article.

The change I find most interesting: Chicago-style now requires a capital letter for a complete sentence following a colon. No, thanks. I think Garner’s Modern English Usage has it right:

Although the uppercase convention is a signpost to the reader that a complete sentence is ahead, that signpost generally isn’t needed.

As GMEU suggests, a lowercase letter “more closely ties the two clauses together.” But when a colon introduces several sentences, each should begin with a capital. In that case, the capital is a useful signpost.

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[This post replaces a nearly identical one with a godawful typo in the title.]