a wee bit of rantiness
Sep. 17th, 2004 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ilanaramaDear friendslist,
These are capital letters --> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. By convention, they are used at the beginning of sentences and as the first letter in proper names. The pronoun 'I' is also capitalized.
To create a capital letter, depress a shift key simultaneously with the letter. There are usually two shift keys on the keyboard, one on each side, conveniently located near the pinky finger of each hand.
Text that is written with no capital letters is hard to read, particularly in large blocks or long paragraphs. I find it irritating. I am on the verge of defriending all of you who are not using capital letters in their normal, conventional positions. Just so you know.
Love,
Ilana
These are capital letters --> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. By convention, they are used at the beginning of sentences and as the first letter in proper names. The pronoun 'I' is also capitalized.
To create a capital letter, depress a shift key simultaneously with the letter. There are usually two shift keys on the keyboard, one on each side, conveniently located near the pinky finger of each hand.
Text that is written with no capital letters is hard to read, particularly in large blocks or long paragraphs. I find it irritating. I am on the verge of defriending all of you who are not using capital letters in their normal, conventional positions. Just so you know.
Love,
Ilana
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(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-17 05:38 pm (UTC)Recently, I've been hitting the random button on lj. I can't tell you how many non-punctuated blogs I found. Oh. So. Annoying.
I personally admit to occasionally whimsical capitalizations, punctuation and sometimes even spelling. But at least I use it, and do so intentionally. :)
(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-17 05:56 pm (UTC)The only thing worse to me than a total lack of capitalization is the use of Random Capitalization like this. Or LIKE THIS. Use of Emphasis is terrific, but I'm thrown completely by SEEMINGLY arbitrary Usage. I read a number of communities that regularly violate all of my rules and pet peeves for writing.
I have one friend who writes in all lowercase and uses overly long paragraphs... sometimes I want to break her fingers. Does this make me a Bad Person?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-17 09:20 pm (UTC)I don't mind caps for emphasis, SPARINGLY used, but on lj we have all these really great html alternatives. And heck, we can *even* go the low-tech route!
(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-19 06:03 am (UTC)Which reminds me...
HAPPY *belated* birthday!
(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-17 06:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-17 07:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-17 09:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-17 09:22 pm (UTC)I played an awful lot of it on my Apple IIe.
counter-troll
Date: 2004-09-17 08:51 pm (UTC)But even worse are those people who don't post under their real names! Who do they think they are?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-18 12:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-18 03:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-19 10:44 pm (UTC)a famous poet
you may take
some liberties
but keep it
to your poetry
and not
your correspondence
(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-19 10:47 pm (UTC)Someone has to, might as well be me
Date: 2004-09-18 05:13 pm (UTC)While we're on the subject: "peeps." Do not do this. Also:
Re: Someone has to, might as well be me
Date: 2004-09-19 10:42 pm (UTC)Descent of woman
Date: 2004-09-18 11:52 pm (UTC)Re: Descent of woman
Date: 2004-09-19 04:42 pm (UTC)Re: Descent of woman
Date: 2004-09-19 10:37 pm (UTC)Re: Descent of woman
Date: 2004-09-19 10:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-19 07:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-19 10:41 pm (UTC)There's no sane reason for most of English spelling, but if yu spel liek this it maeks yur reeders work harder to understand whut yu ar saying.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-19 10:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-19 11:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-20 05:04 pm (UTC)called "The Mother Tongue: english and how it got that way";
very enjoyable and explained why there's "no sane reason for
most of English spelling". It's more historical than logical.
I wish I had read that book a long time ago.
My english teachers would always tell me I was an idiot
and or trouble maker because I'd ask,
"why do you pronounce colonel "ker-nel"
(with an "R" sound), but spell it colonel, without an "R"?
Unfortunately, most of my english teachers at the schools
I went to were either little old ladies who had absolutely
no idea how to teach english to modern kids (or to control
a classroom full of them unless it was by literally whipping them),
or the P.E. coaches that also worked as the english teachers
between football practise.
So usually the punishment for asking questions about english
spelling was "Give me a lap", or "drop and give me 30". Etc.
Now why english punctuation is how it is, I do not know.
There is a book that just came out a while back called,
"Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" which is about punctuation.
But I haven't read it yet, so I don't know if it explains
why english punctuation is the way it is, if it is more historical
or more logical. It seems more like it's kind of both,
since I seem to be able to punctuate better than I can spell.