Very strange, Ann. I think writing in caps was popularized by the original Apple//, which wrote only in caps. Thus some of the first bulletin boards and e-mail letters were in caps. (Remember when we sent e-mail by dialing someone's home modem with a long telecommunication script, then uploading the document to their computer?) The useage foible that bugs me most is the use of "have got" in place of "have." It's even worse when contracted, such as in "They've got to be kidding." Paul
Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > > > Son-in-law wrote to her: > >.... IRC got started, where people could type to each other > >live, just like a conversation, so the geeks started describing typing in > >caps as shouting, and a lot of bull about being rude. it used to matter > >(before there were translators), now it doesn't, and no one gets to make the > >rules. frankly anyone that has this concern is living in the seventies. > >there is no correct format for anything anymore---that's what universal > >communication is all about... > > Scary, eh? > annsan
