To: caver
My pet peeve is Americans using the Brit’s spelling. They are just trying to be cute. Back in my younger days, every aspiring poet, upon first discovering e.e. cummings, went through a stage where capitalization was shunned. Same phenomenon.
21 posted on
02/07/2011 5:33:09 AM PST by
Mr Ramsbotham
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Back in my younger days, every aspiring poet, upon first discovering e.e. cummings, went through a stage where capitalization was shunned. They eventually gave up poetry, became computer geeks and invented "texting"............
45 posted on
02/07/2011 5:56:31 AM PST by
Red Badger
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Back in my younger days, every aspiring poet, upon first discovering e.e. cummings, went through a stage where capitalization was shunned. Same phenomenon. I've seen it at F.R. but didn't attribute it to e.e. cummings, I just figured it was folks new to typing and didn't know what the "shift" key was for.
We also have the other extreme of ALL CAPS.
60 posted on
02/07/2011 6:08:38 AM PST by
Graybeard58
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