Comments on: this is a lowercase title for my blog entry

By: nic

nic — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:18:42 +0000

My signature, for a while, was lower case because I thought it looked cool, and it did. My sister, the “psychologist”, decided I was doing that because I felt unworthy and inferior. Unworthy of capital letters? Someone needs a doctor and it ain’t me, Babe.

By: Words For My Enjoyment » Blog Archive » Words For Your Enjoyment: Capital Letters

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:15:57 +0000

[...] Now we must address some of the history that WFME has had with capital letters in the past, first. There were times when we wrote our posts in lowercase only as well as giving the ‘ol Caps Lock key a full-on smackdown. But never have we discussed the pressure one feels to use capitals in all their text and the way in which society insists you start every damn sentence with a CAPITAL. [...]

By: kenny

kenny — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I like lowercase because itâ€™s freedom from shift key. I like lowercase because itâ€™s lower, where I belong

By: lori

lori — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Damnit! This is the third time I’ve tried to enter a comment and it keeps doing something wonky when I hit backspace….&(&()!!

Anyhoo…I was saying, pauly, that punctuation can mean so much. For instance consider the following: I have a question mark.

WITH our friend the comma, this sentence means that I have a question and I’m talking to you, Mark. (I have a question, Mark.)

WITHOUT our friend the comma, this sentence summons images of me as the guest star on Sesame Street holding up a GIANT cardboard question mark. Preferably with baby elmo…I love him.

Of course we also have upper/lowercase issues at play in this example. Perhaps it was too advanced.

That’s all.

By: Pauly D

Pauly D — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

You have a, good, point, there, my friend.

By: lori

lori — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

yeah, i’m thinking about it some more and i’ve settled on a pro-punctuation and anti-case stance.

we really should do all we can to end case-ism. viva la revolution!!

By: Reluctant Writer

Reluctant Writer — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

My personal favorite for titles is drop case. That’s where only the first word is capitalized and everything else is lower case.

For text, I just can’t leave that shift key alone. I’ve tried. Oh, how I’ve tried! For me, grammar and spelling and complete sentenses are optional.

The small caps feature in Microsoft Word is fun because everything is all caps, but some letters can be more capital than others.

This comment likely contains text that does not adhere to common spelling and gramatical norms. These errors are not intentional, and I apologize for any difficulty they cause you in understanding my meager and tentative efforts to communicate.

By: janelle

janelle — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

i love lowercase. i’m all lowercase, all the time. because i never get capitalization, grammar or spelling right, i just abandon them all. plus, i have an aversion to any caps BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE MY PARENTS WHO DO THIS IN EMAILS OR IM’S.