Capital offence

**Rick Cadger** · Sep-27-2007, 7:40am

That does it.

I have just received the 5th (friendly) email asking why all my posts are in lower case, except proper nouns. The original reason was a silly one, but I've been doing it for so long that it is now just force of habit.

From here on, provided I remember, capital letters will be employed in their customary roles.

**MikeEdgerton** · Sep-27-2007, 7:46am

to tell you the truth i never even noticed. i can handle all lower case.

**farmerjones** · Sep-27-2007, 7:53am

i always do that, at least on the net.
IMHO i think the big I sticks out too much.
Afterall, who am i anyway? ima nobody.

**Jkf_Alone** · Sep-27-2007, 8:36am

all caps is far more annoying than improper grammar

**Santiago** · Sep-27-2007, 8:44am

Letters are like musical notes,why play everything at one volume when you can be MORE EXPRESSIVE by Applying Dymamics. Without them, we sound -- AND READ -- like we're COMPUTER GENERATED.

**BlueMountain** · Sep-27-2007, 9:08am

Welcome to civilization and polite society. Now, do you know what all those forks are for?

**duuuude** · Sep-27-2007, 10:38am

yer kiddin, right? why would they actually give a darn? some folks got way too little goin on.

**Timbofood** · Sep-27-2007, 11:08am

Blue mountain, I use the big fork for scratchin' mah back... izzat rat?
Last time I did that at a restaurant my friend dropped a whiole hand full of mashed taters!
Actually both my parents were teachers and poor grammar is a bit like fingernails on a blackboard. I may have digital failure now and again but I do try. Digital failure means fahngers, so it kud apply to pickin' too.

**8ch(pl)** · Sep-27-2007, 11:14am

down with capitalism

**ApK** · Sep-28-2007, 9:00am

Darn, I though this thread was going to be about Mike Huckabee's band.

**AlanN** · Sep-28-2007, 9:07am

Originally Posted by (Timbofood @ Sep. 27 2007, 12:08)

Last time I did that at a restaurant my friend dropped a whiole hand full of mashed taters!

Billy Ray Latham lives!!

When my father had lost some social inhibition with age, we were at a restaurant and the dessert cart went by our table. He reached out and grabbed a handful of cake and ate it. Everybody just smiled (and we quietly paid for the dessert).

I find ALL CAPS more irritating than all lower case.

**Keith Erickson** · Sep-28-2007, 9:15am

#

To be totally honest with you...

...I thought this thread was about the band "Capital Offense".

Their bass player and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is running for President and so I thought that this was where the discussion was going.

You got me hook, line and sinker.....

Warm & Best Regards,

**Mark Sullivan** · Sep-28-2007, 9:23am

WE USE ALL CAPS IN WORK - found it fostered my tendency toward laziness. mazin what offends some people. know what offends me? mostly me

**Tighthead** · Sep-28-2007, 9:42am

What really bugs me
are the replies in haiku
that ignore nature

**JEStanek** · Sep-28-2007, 12:11pm

e e cummings wrote
not of mandos or nature
in haiku format

**ApK** · Sep-28-2007, 12:32pm

GMTA, Keith

**Tighthead** · Sep-28-2007, 1:05pm

Good one, JEStanek. But that's a debate for another time and place.

What really annoys me is when folk write single paragraphs, 750 words long. White space is your friend!

**Keith Erickson** · Sep-28-2007, 1:09pm

Originally Posted by (ApK @ Sep. 28 2007, 13:32)

GMTA, Keith

I'm glad that I'm not the only one...
...I was getting a little nervous

**Dalton Maples** · Sep-28-2007, 7:48pm

Ya spelled offence rong!

Dalton

**PhilGE** · Sep-28-2007, 8:21pm

you could believe that you are archy
the cockroach and not mind much of anything such as periods
or commas or any other kind of punctuation
i wonder what it would be like to play music without grammar

poetry is free
can be made without grammar
thanks don marquis

**SGraham** · Sep-29-2007, 12:21pm

Some of us are English teachers when we're not playing our mandos. We read and grade badly written papers all week, evenings included. Reading a well written one (these come along rarely) can feel like a long drink of cold water. So you non-capitalizers and you possessive pronoun butchers who don't know the difference between its and it's or your and you're, please be patient with us. We do a pretty good job of ignoring your grammatical and stylistic #####.

By the way, "it's" means "it is," and "you're" means "you are." Statements like "My mandolin broke it is tailpiece" or "I like you are mandolin" can make a fella feel a bit testy after a while.

Steve

**SGraham** · Sep-29-2007, 12:24pm

Gee, in my post above, a word got edited out. Lest anyone think I was waxing obscene, the expunged word referred to flatulence.

Play on, punctuators and punk chew aterz alike!

Steve

**SternART** · Sep-29-2007, 12:44pm

Those same 5 folks always get me for the dots in my posts.....go figure?....I'm more of a stream of thoughts kinda writer.
I think it is cool to express yourself any way you want flattop....

**JEStanek** · Sep-29-2007, 2:54pm

Art,
I'm a stream of thoughts guy too... The dots are actually correct, I believe. I'll check my Strunk and White later. For those who don't like the dots...
... --- ... Maybe an English prof. will come to the rescue.

Jamie

**Peter Hackman** · Sep-29-2007, 3:09pm

Originally Posted by (SGraham @ Sep. 29 2007, 13:24)

Gee, in my post above, a word got edited out. Lest anyone think I was waxing obscene, the expunged word referred to flatulence.

Play on, punctuators and punk chew aterz alike!

Steve

Oh, those damn #:s rob your posts of all nuance and expressivity.

If it's not a hit, it's ####

If it doesn't snap, it's ####

ridiculous!