diff --git a/app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php b/app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
index 2d6689b554..279549d4cb 100644
--- a/app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
+++ b/app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
@@ -19,8 +19,13 @@ class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider {
 	public function boot()
 	{
         HTML::macro('nav_link', function($url, $text, $url2 = '', $extra = '') {
+            $capitalize = config('former.capitalize_translations');
             $class = ( Request::is($url) || Request::is($url.'/*') || Request::is($url2.'/*') ) ? ' class="active"' : '';
-            $title = ucwords(trans("texts.$text")) . Utils::getProLabel($text);
+            if($capitalize){
+              $title = ucwords(trans("texts.$text")) . Utils::getProLabel($text);
+            } else {
+              $title = trans("texts.$text")  . Utils::getProLabel($text);
+            }
             return '<li'.$class.'><a href="'.URL::to($url).'" '.$extra.'>'.$title.'</a></li>';
         });
 
diff --git a/config/former.php b/config/former.php
index 7279aaf78a..b9c729e2f9 100644
--- a/config/former.php
+++ b/config/former.php
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 
     // Whether text that comes out of the translated
     // should be capitalized (ex: email => Email) automatically
-    'capitalize_translations' => true,
+    'capitalize_translations' => false,
 
     // An array of attributes to automatically translate
     'translatable'            => array(