inchoate
Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Mon, 08 Mar 1999 08:10:56 +0000
OK, so I'm obsessional about it. But do the people
who send in posts devoid of capitals give *any* thought
to the way their posts will be received by their readers?
To write a sentence in remorselessly lower case - often even
without punctuation - means that the reader has first to
*decipher* the message before starting to try & understand
it. This is fine practice for those of us in military intelligence
who wish to keep our decrypting faculties sharpened but
for the ordinary reader it simply presents one more hurdle
on the road to clarity.
There's also the implication that the writer is doing us all
a great favour, that his heavily veiled thoughts are sufficient
in themselves, that no further effort is required from him.
Or perhaps that his teenshy weenshy, babyish,
thumb-in-the-mouth mannerisms are too loveable to be
resisted.
Well huck you, sunshine. If you're not going to do your best,
neither am I.
Scottie B.