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February 20th, 2012, 08:20 PM
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Inner Circle
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Proper use of Capital letters.
I've noticed that more and more people who send text messages, emails and post here, seem to have forgotten the art of Capital letters.
For those of you who fall into this category, please take note of the following statement: "Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse." Is everybody clear on that? Cheers.
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February 20th, 2012, 08:47 PM
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Wrangler
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Re: Proper use of Capital letters.
i dOn't kNow bUt i'Ve bEen tOld tHat tHere cAn bE a lOt mOre mOney iN tHe lAtter tHan tHe fOrmer.
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February 21st, 2012, 04:43 PM
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Re: Proper use of Capital letters.
tHREAD mOVED tO aREA 51.
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February 24th, 2012, 07:02 AM
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Inner Circle
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Re: Proper use of Capital letters.
Allan, you're right - I keep seeing zebras given a capital letter when I'm pretty sure the same writer wouldn't give a polar bear the same importance. And what's this with the apostrophe? I'm pretty sure people wouldn't say they've got two dog's, but they seem perfectly happy to say they've got two DVD's.
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February 25th, 2012, 04:44 PM
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Trustee
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Re: Proper use of Capital letters.
I agree, Tom. Obviously all their expensive education's not worth a monkey's.
But basically, I couldn't give a rat's - I've given up on standards of literacy on the internet. (Possessive not plural, of course, relating the the object understood and not the same thing at all). |
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February 25th, 2012, 08:06 PM
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Wrangler
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Re: Proper use of Capital letters.
So is it "The Internet's" or "the internetz?"
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February 25th, 2012, 08:31 PM
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Re: Proper use of Capital letters.
It all makes sense once you understand that grammars and dictionaries are descriptive not prescriptive.
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February 25th, 2012, 10:07 PM
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Inner Circle
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Re: Proper use of Capital letters.
hMMM, i'M conFuseD! Good thing I can use my old age as a excuse since I went to school so long ago, I forgot everything they learned me.
O|O \--/
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February 26th, 2012, 09:55 AM
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Wrangler
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Re: Proper use of Capital letters.
...I've forgotten more than I ever knew.
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April 29th, 2012, 06:37 PM
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Re: Proper use of Capital letters.
With due credit to the author .. 'How to lose $300 million .. er Million'
A Stern Warning: Words Do Matter | LawLawLandBlog.com Cheers.
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May 1st, 2012, 06:25 PM
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Re: Proper use of Capital letters.
coming from a unix background where case matters, i'm not keen on capitalization, and in particular dislike ALL-CAPS sentences. there's much more information to be gleaned from Mixed-Caps then from ALL-CAPS. leaving out the capitals, as you point, can cause riotous results, and conveys a great deal of visual information (e.g., the letter's descenders are valuable to the human eye).
and e.e.cummings was onto something... :) - rob ps - i do try to correctly capitalize other person's and entities' names... |
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