Hallo, Am Thu, 06 Apr 2006, malcolm schrieb:
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 18:44, Johannes Kastl wrote: [..]
Und die meisten Leute empfinden durchgängige Kleinschreibung als schwierig/anstrengend zu lesen.
Korrekt.
this is actually not true, as any behavioral psychologist will confirm. we have much more practise at reading lower than upper case (a ratio of about 80:1 in your above paragraph). the reason for using capitals at the beginning of nouns was so that monks of old could decorate them.
Utter nonsense! You obviously do not read much. If you did, you'd realize that one reads words -- not letters. And how a _word_ looks depends a lot on capitalization, letters with ascenders and/or descenders... In german I can "scan" a page of a normal paperback for a specific word at about a rate of 1 second per page! And I do need a bit longer in english, because english word forms are more alike _because_ of the lack of capitalization. And I read at high speed too, because I do read words (or even combinations of words) and not letter by letter. To be able to read efficiently, one needs correct(!) capitalization -- in every language! If you were so handicapped as only being able to read letter by letter, you'd be a poor sod, and you'd probably not realize the importance of capitalization. But you seem to be. And thus, your opinion in the matter of capitalization is inherently and utterly irrelevant. *** GAME OVER *** HAND, -dnh, move along, rant is over... Nothing to see... PS: you're >< that much away from a final "plonk". -- I could've, but soft Scottish female voices makes my knees weak and language switch had already been initiated. Thus, it would've been more trouble than it was wotrh, switching langauge back. //ingvar (hot-pluggable BrainOS language modules, new off the presses!)