On 06/01/2011 02:03 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Stan Goodman<stan.goodman@hashkedim.com> [06-01-11 04:53]:
It is not dishonorable not to use capitals.
Nor is picking your nose or scratching your ass, but it *is* distasteful, crude and anti-social. It does show that you are your own persona and have little reguard for accepted behavior.
I don't want to make a big thing of this, because the matter itself verges on the trivial. At the same time, I hope I can make a short response. I myself speak and write in complete sentences; In general, my punctuation and capitalization are also careful; I have never, in all the years I have participated in lists, Usenet, and other forums (since 1980) written a single message in all caps; I'm sure I never will. But to make the kind of issue of no-caps as in this thread strikes me as ridiculous. That was why I brought up Don Marquis's book, to poke a bit of fun (that seems to have gone over some heads). The offending no-caps message seemed to me to be clear and unambiguous. I don't think it is possible to argue that caps would have made it clearer; the effort to pretend otherwise seems pedantic. One would have to be leading an extremely sheltered life to magnify the importance of caps to that extent. Distasteful? Scratching your ass? Distasteful? Crude? Ant-social? You can't be serious. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org