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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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.