Re: CHAT: INTERSYSTEMAL CONLANG

yscreus il Ge. Jones:

>>Please take your finger off the shift key!
>question: are you (or anyone else) using read-out-loud type software >that actually
>renders caps in a louder voice? if not, what's the big >deal?
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!

>you young whippersnappers have it too easy. when i started in >computers, they
>didn't even have lower case, everything was upper >case. we even had to learn
>how to change the ribbon in the keypunch >machine after walking 40 miles in
>the snow to school ....
Poor babe. Really. I'm certainly glad that the industry soon added lower case!

I learnt to type on (and when using a machine, still use) an L.C. Smith & Bros
No. 5. Also had to change the ribbon in the machine before stepping into the
transporter for the 40 mile zap over to school, where we had to contend with
plowed and sanded driveways. That is, on the odd chance the County didn't cave
and cancel school for .00000125" of snow! ;)

Padraic.

>Jeffrey S. Jones