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Adminnemooseus Administrator Posts: 3974 Joined: |
brennakimi writes:
Source see. paragraphs are made of sentences. sentences are supposed to have a subject, a predicatory verb, and then modifying words which describe either how the verb predicates or how the noun exists. i distinctly recall a few exceptions in his post. four leaf clover or no. Off-topic there, but on-topic here ("pot calling the kettle black" department?). I say: Sentences are supposed to have a subject, a predicatory verb, and then modifying words which describe either how the verb predicates or how the noun exists, and should start with capital letters. The capital letter part is so easy. Why not be courtious and use them? Adminnemooseus ps: Subtitle starts with lower case, because brennakimi chooses to have her ID to start with lower case. I have no problem with that, although I often upper case such IDs anyway. Someday I may even alias minnemooseus into Minnemooseus. Edited to fix link to correct message number. This message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 05-18-2005 05:19 PM
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1405 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
and don't forget archy and mehitabel
{{edited to remove caps ...}} This message has been edited by RAZD, 05*18*2005 07:55 PM
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1344 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
Why not be courtious and use them? laziness. also, in some older languages, two different cases just don't exist. and in some, they're just used very differently. for instance, my signature has letters of two cases: consonants and vowels. the word "case" itself comes from the printing press, although capitalization itself is older, dating back to middle if not early english. the capitals were apperently contained in the UPPER case and rest in the lower case of letters. and of course, some would argue that lower-case lettering is easier to read, because of the ascenders and descenders, or something.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1344 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
hey, people are talking about me!
Hey, Arachnophilia is studying the original Hebrew Torah, no, not quite yet. still working on learning hebrew... i'll be taking a hebrew class this fall.
The benefits of capitalization have probably just escaped his notice as being such a minor improvement compared to the space bar and the puncuation keys. heh, sort of. but it's really just laziness. i don't like typing with my pinkies. when i write papers for school, however, i do certainly use capital letters in their proper places. i consider it the difference between formal and informal speech. also, your sentance should look like this:
klstsprthtwrtdrqrbdlhsststnrnalclbbknthaylltca ghnadgswtafanmatwrtsaddntnahwhyywthsasthylrlcscbsth gnthmosylbbrpsantcnptastnwhwhywhbtsmtanthssmrf ntlvafayrththdnastsrvnatdltascthwpamcnts i've added line breaks out of curtousey, since it won't wrap properly right-to-left. but no spaces, no vowels, words that start with vowels replaced with "a" which is a consonant.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1344 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
I've always enjoyed Arach's content and respected his contributions and have learned a lot from his posts and never even noticed lack of capitalization. thanks!
My point is that it could be a whole lot worse, a whole lot. It doesn't bother me at all, but then I grew up loving the poety of cummings. no, i'm just not 1337 3n0u64.
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macaroniandcheese  Suspended Member (Idle past 3928 days) Posts: 4258 Joined: |
that's nice. see but it's a style thing. artistic licence. i know the rules; therefore, i can break them, just like ee cummings... though i do not claim to be as talented. i find capital letters unnecessarily ugly and difficult to read.
IF YOU LIKE, I COULD DO THIS. BUT I MIGHT HAVE A HEART ATTACK AND DIE. be happy because my punctuation is pristeen. This message has been edited by brennakimi, 05-18-2005 08:33 PM
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lfen Member (Idle past 4678 days) Posts: 2189 From: Oregon Joined: |
and don't forget archy and mehitabel I had forgetten them! Thanks for reminding me. They were a favorite of my father and I may still own the book somewhere. lfen
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lfen Member (Idle past 4678 days) Posts: 2189 From: Oregon Joined: |
i've added line breaks out of curtousey, since it won't wrap properly right-to-left. but no spaces, no vowels, words that start with vowels replaced with "a" which is a consonant. Yeah, Jar picked up on the vowels and the left to right bit. I dashed that off and I'm not versed in Hebrew at all, but I think I made my point that in the great scheme of written works lack of capitalization is not an impediment to comprehension. It just turns out that the Bible is even harder to cipher out than I imagined. lfen This message has been edited by lfen, 05-18-2005 08:07 PM
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Nighttrain Member (Idle past 3994 days) Posts: 1512 From: brisbane,australia Joined: |
Cipher? The Bible has ciphers?
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1344 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
but I think I made my point that in the great scheme of written works lack of capitalization is not an impediment to comprehension well, hebrew does have two cases: consonants and vowels. see the little dots below the hebrew letters in my signature? those are the vowels. they are written that way, so as not to intrude on the text in holy works, since the originals didn't have the vowels. the earliest hebrew manuscript we have, the masoretic, DOES have spacing and vowels and line breaks. so if i wanted to write similar to the masoretic, SiTH eKiL GNiTHeMoS KooL DLouW TiA granted, i can't get the vowels actually BELOW the consonsants, but it's still really distracting in english.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
However,
it's an important point and I'd even like to see a whole thread on it. In addition to the below chracter notations, we need to remember there were also marginal notations in many cases, just to keep things interesting. This message has been edited by jar, 05-19-2005 02:58 PM Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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Adminnemooseus Administrator Posts: 3974 Joined: |
see but it's a style thing. artistic licence. I could also invoke "administrative artistic licence". But wouldn't need to, because I have forum guideline #1:
Follow all moderator requests. My request that members use proper capitalization is most reasonable. The vast majority of forum members do such, without requiring any special request. Even Brad does. Bottom line: Right now I could go to most any message from any of the "shift key impaired", and do a suspension because of a forum rule violation. RAZD might first need a formal warning, but both brennakimi and Arachnophilia have obviously already seen my request. Adminnemooseus
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1344 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
Bottom line: Right now I could go to most any message from any of the "shift key impaired", and do a suspension because of a forum rule violation. RAZD might first need a formal warning, but both brennakimi and Arachnophilia have obviously already seen my request. would that be fair, do you suspect?
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Adminnemooseus Administrator Posts: 3974 Joined: |
Absolutely fair.
Adminnemooseus Added by edit: Correct the above to "Absolutely fair for messages posted after the admin request was made". I'm certainly not going to charge you for messages posted prior to the request. This message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 05-19-2005 04:15 PM
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macaroniandcheese  Suspended Member (Idle past 3928 days) Posts: 4258 Joined: |
fine, merry christmas.
if my lack of capitalisation bothers you so much that you no longer desire my input in this forum, i have other things that i do with my time. This message has been edited by brennakimi, 05-19-2005 04:17 PM
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