Re: CHAT: browsers

*sniff* My phone isn't that cool.  Everything is in all caps!

But I pride myself on good English usage in email.  Even my sisters (who are
much younger, and didn't start hanging out online when the only other people
were scary grown-ups who got mad if you didn't speak on a college level)
capitalize, punctuate, etc. in email and online communications, unless
they're making a "haxor" joke.  There's no need to look like you've been
channeling e.e. cummings online.  Though really, I think that "I LOVED YOUR
STORY I THINK ITS GREAT CAN YOU WRITE SOME MORE PLEASE" is more offensive
than "i luvd ur story i think its gr8t can u rite sum mre plz!!?!/!"  Only
marginally, though, and only because all-caps hurts my eyes.  I delete
anything that looks like it's going to be "I LUVD UR STORY I THINK ITS GR8T
CAN U RITE SUM MRE PLZ!?!?!!/!!1" without reading it.  ^_^

I prefer the differences in capitalization in the metric system.  It's like
having 52 letters for the price of 26 plus a few extra brain cells.  And if
you limit yourself to two-letter combinations, having enforced
capitalization differences gets you 2704 options; if capitalization doesn't
matter you only have 676.

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
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http://www.geocities.com/lloannna.geo
http://lloannna.blogspot.com

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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Tristan
> >>Tell that to the new generation of IM-ing, SMS-ing writers. They don't
> >>have capitalisation unless the phone they're using defaults to it for
> >>the first character entered (like mine).
> >
> > But that's a fault of the technology, not otherwise.
>
> No it's not, it's a choice on the part of the writers. You *can* use
> capital letters in IM (the same way I include capital letters in this
> email) and SMS (using the phone's shift/caps key). People simply choose
> not to.
>
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