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Funny. I’m German, and in German it’s actually a rule that the word after the “:” must be capitalized. I always have to go back through my English writing and un-capitalize those words because I just can’t get used to not doing it.
Oh, interesting. A couple hundred years again, it used to be the done thing in written English to capitalise every noun in a sentence, German-style. The Yanks have “in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility”, for example. We’ve mostly stopped doing that now. There were a lot of German immigrants to the early US; whether they’ve taken your influence on colons, or whether it’s just pre-standardisation English and it needed to be one way or another…
We’d consider excessive capitalisation, or worse, running all-caps, to be the sign of a diseased mind, now. Not naming any names.