Re: CHAT: INTERSYSTEMAL CONLANG

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:20:59 -0400 agricola <agricola@...>
writes:
> Depends on the mood. I happened to be in a cranky mood last night
> and so read it in voce strepitu. The problem is that all caps are
> harder to read. I don't know about you, but I don't read English
> letter for letter. I read by word shape and by phrase. In all caps,
> every word is a rectangle, and most of the letters are squares. It's
> a pain in the arse to have to slow down so much. Mind you, it's not
> half so annoying as the modern adolescent affectation of using all
> lower case. How dweebish!
> Padraic.
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thanks a lot, padraic.  ;-P

i'D THiNk WRiTinG LiKe tHiS WouLD Be "dWeeBisH"
0r L1k3 d1z...

i actually picked up typing in all (or mostly) lower-case from a friend
of mine who used to do it.  i felt like i was being self-aggrandizing or
egotistical by using "I" and capitalizing my name when she wasn't.  Ever
since then i don't really understand why in english "i" has to be
capitalized, setting it apart from the other pronouns.  Like, (hmm... i
seem to be capitalizing the beginnings of sentences now) if parents and
teachers always say to use "So-and-So and I" instead of "Me/I and
So-and-So" because fronting the first-person pronoun is rudely
self-centered, why do we capitalize it in the first place?  so
eventually, now whenever i type i automatically write "I" as "i", so that
if i'm writing something in formal language i usually need to go back and
make sure that i wrote it in the prescriptively correct style.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "i think we got it all wrong anyway..."

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