Comments on: ‘i’ is a Cardinal Sin http://www.novelr.com/2007/03/23/i-is-a-cardinal-sin Writing, Publishing and The Internet Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:22:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eli James http://www.novelr.com/2007/03/23/i-is-a-cardinal-sin/comment-page-1#comment-67 Eli James Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:49:26 +0000 http://www.novelr.com/archives/i-is-a-cardinal-sin#comment-67 Yeap - and I discovered that most people out there share the exact same sentiments when it comes to captitalizations. In fact, now that I've been alerted to this - reading up on my archives seems to be a real chore - there are loads of uncapitalised 'i's in this blog. I'm starting to tire of correcting each and everyone of them ... so much so that I've actually considered writing a Wordpress plugin just to change uncapped 'i's to 'I's. Now that's what I call being lazy. :-) Yeap – and I discovered that most people out there share the exact same sentiments when it comes to captitalizations. In fact, now that I’ve been alerted to this – reading up on my archives seems to be a real chore – there are loads of uncapitalised ‘i’s in this blog.

I’m starting to tire of correcting each and everyone of them … so much so that I’ve actually considered writing a Wordpress plugin just to change uncapped ‘i’s to ‘I’s.

Now that’s what I call being lazy. :-)

]]> By: Visi http://www.novelr.com/2007/03/23/i-is-a-cardinal-sin/comment-page-1#comment-66 Visi Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:11:55 +0000 http://www.novelr.com/archives/i-is-a-cardinal-sin#comment-66 I find proper capitalisation a lot prettier to look at and easier to read than all lower case. If a blog or a person doesn't use proper grammar then I will still attempt to read it, but I normally end up getting bored or annoyed that much faster. The only time I ever use fully lower case is in IM, when I'm trying to convey the fact I'm either depressed or upset, and that somebody had better start entertaining me as soon as possible. I tend to use sentences such as “I dun like doin this, it’s boring,” in IM, but I wouldn’t impose that on anybody but my close friends. I find proper capitalisation a lot prettier to look at and easier to read than all lower case. If a blog or a person doesn’t use proper grammar then I will still attempt to read it, but I normally end up getting bored or annoyed that much faster.

The only time I ever use fully lower case is in IM, when I’m trying to convey the fact I’m either depressed or upset, and that somebody had better start entertaining me as soon as possible.

I tend to use sentences such as “I dun like doin this, it’s boring,” in IM, but I wouldn’t impose that on anybody but my close friends.

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