Re: BANANAFISH digest 866

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 16:27:59 +0000 

    '... I'm an english teacher with a phd and don't like to use 
    the shift key when online ...'

    Few of us, of course, can compete with that PhD.
    I still maintain, Will, that for anyone habitually using 
    a keyboard it takes rather a DELIBERATE effort 
    to AVOID using the shift key.  I also maintain that
    all-lower-case typing introduces an ambiguity which
    demands more effort from a reader than a well-mannered 
    writer would wish to impose.  For God's sake, it's hard 
    enough to make oneself intelligible without erecting 
    artificial barriers.  If you wish to welcome your reader 
    in the way of any good host you don't insist he take 
    off his shoes & socks.  He may decide not to come back.

    Scottie B.