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Capital Embellishment: Why do Tea Partiers uppercase so many of their nouns?
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| 1 Nov 2010
| John Lackman
Posted on 11/01/2010 9:53:43 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
To: smokingfrog
This passes for wit in liberal circles?
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posted on
11/01/2010 9:56:25 PM PDT
by
moodyskeptic
(Cultural warrior with a keyboard)
To: smokingfrog
Must be a slow news day when someone complains about uppercase letters.
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:00:52 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: smokingfrog
Well she did capitalize pursuit........
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:01:41 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: Slyfox
I AGREE!!!
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:02:16 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
( Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
To: Slyfox
He’ll have plenty of things to complain about tomorrow. Let him have his rant.
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:02:42 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(If he were not so gruesomely incompetent and dangerous, Obama would just be silly.)
To: smokingfrog
Could it just possibly be because that’s the way it’s written in the Constitution?
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:03:30 PM PDT
by
jwparkerjr
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: smokingfrog
Somewhere, members of this clown's fan club are texting,
what u b doing u got 2 c this
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:03:45 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Just another white boy riding in the back of the bus next to the Emergency Exit.)
To: smokingfrog
and i want to know why yankees put an er at the end of alabama...
ee cummings mode
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:04:14 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
( Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
To: smokingfrog
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Now you've gone and done it. The author, John Lackman, will be pissed you lifted words from an Obama speech without attribution.
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:04:49 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Defund National Peoples Radio!! Democrats are for free speech. Just not for you.)
To: smokingfrog
When exactly did “uppercase” become a verb?
To: Slyfox
Must be a slow news day when someone complains about uppercase letters.The kind of article you write on the eve of the electorate handing you your ass on a silver platter....
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:06:45 PM PDT
by
kevao
To: smokingfrog
... because there is a difference between god and God. The left knows that, and it is why they cant ... no ... wont ... acknowledge it. The use of capitals is indicative of specific meaning. To say man has certain inalienable rights is not the same as Man has certain inalienable rights. The first could be a gender, but the second means a genus. If man has certain inalienable rights, then wo-man may not have those same rights.
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:07:57 PM PDT
by
RainMan
To: smokingfrog
What John Lackman doesn't understand is that, in German, nouns are capitalized.
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:10:54 PM PDT
by
April Lexington
(Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
When exactly did “uppercase” become a verb? Maybe the same day "costed" became a word...
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:11:02 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
( Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
To: USNBandit
This guy seems to think that the secretaries went crazy with the capitalization, but they did so on the original copy that the members of the Continental Congress signed. One would think that those learned men would have insisted that the document be correct as written. They weren’t like today’s Congressmen that don’t read what they vote yea on.
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:11:20 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: moodyskeptic
This passes for Wit in liberal Circles? Apparently so, and there seems to be no Lack of Nitwits in the Comments Section.
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:11:59 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
To: April Lexington
... and... in those days, English was much more Germanic than today. King George, was, in fact, German so it makes sense. And... we are supposed to be the knuckle draggers!
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:12:32 PM PDT
by
April Lexington
(Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: gov_bean_ counter
This really should be benchmarked.
To: gov_bean_ counter
and i want to know why yankees put an er at the end of alabama... It all started with those who drank of the Charles River. Somehow, it caused them to move the "r"s from the middle of their words to the end.
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posted on
11/01/2010 10:13:57 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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