tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016693.post4892771495641872399..comments2023-11-03T03:24:32.662-05:00Comments on typings of AndR, k.s.c.: it & IAndrew Aaron Heathwaitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13957741864754144273noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016693.post-13217366724228154202009-04-15T12:51:00.000-05:002009-04-15T12:51:00.000-05:00Cultural shifts are made up of individual changes....Cultural shifts are made up of individual changes... personally, I have different capitalization principles for different media. For instant messages, I ignore the shift key unless necessary (e.g.: to refer to an acronym that is otherwise ambiguous). For text messages on phones, it automatically capitalizes the first word in each sentence and "I", so I leave it like that. For everything else, I try to maintain "cultural continuity" (capitalize what is "proper").<br /><br />I don't know if I really like this media-dependent scheme though. It seems like it would be more elegant if we dropped capitals all together in all media. Most writing systems don't have capitals, only a few major systems like the Latin alphabet and Cyrillic alphabet are exceptions...Kylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969956393774965833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016693.post-60352207986075593122009-04-15T10:16:00.000-05:002009-04-15T10:16:00.000-05:00Interestingly, the first person is not capitalized...Interestingly, the first person is not capitalized in Spanish (yo). Then again, neither or other words we do, like months or days of the week.Rebelfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16149523220443651898noreply@blogger.com