Comments on: Why All the Capitalization Lately? http://dwax.org/2008/01/27/why_all_the_capitalization_lately/ writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:32:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Anonymous http://dwax.org/2008/01/27/why_all_the_capitalization_lately/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-170 Haha, this is funny.<br />Haha, this is funny. Actually, i am German, and we really do have a funny Way towards Capitalization. I've actually noticed the Things you listed in your Article - Capitalization of random Words - but i always thought there was some Kind of secret Grammarrule that i didn't know of. Obviously, there doesn't seem to be One, does there? But to my Knowledge, Englishspeakers don't take Orthohraphy very seriously, right? So why bother about Capitalization? ;D Haha, this is funny.
Haha, this is funny. Actually, i am German, and we really do have a funny Way towards Capitalization. I’ve actually noticed the Things you listed in your Article – Capitalization of random Words – but i always thought there was some Kind of secret Grammarrule that i didn’t know of. Obviously, there doesn’t seem to be One, does there? But to my Knowledge, Englishspeakers don’t take Orthohraphy very seriously, right? So why bother about Capitalization?
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]]> By: Anonymous http://dwax.org/2008/01/27/why_all_the_capitalization_lately/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-173 It should probably be noted<br />It should probably be noted that such a wide-scale shift in spelling and grammar is happening in more areas than one (do u lik txt?). The question shouldn't be "why is this happening," but rather "who is it happening to?" What specific category or categories of people is this phenomenon most prevalent in? Additionally, is there some economic or social factor that links people that demonstrate this behavior? These, and similar questions, might shed more light on the subject. It should probably be noted
It should probably be noted that such a wide-scale shift in spelling and grammar is happening in more areas than one (do u lik txt?). The question shouldn’t be “why is this happening,” but rather “who is it happening to?”

What specific category or categories of people is this phenomenon most prevalent in? Additionally, is there some economic or social factor that links people that demonstrate this behavior?

These, and similar questions, might shed more light on the subject.

]]> By: Anonymous http://dwax.org/2008/01/27/why_all_the_capitalization_lately/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-179 Dustin, I work for an<br />Dustin, I work for an advertising agency. This is definitely turning into an epidemic. We get copy from clients all the time that's chock full of gratuitous capitalization. And the worst offender? My Creative Director, of all people. Not good. And you're not alone in being annoyed by it. Don't get me "started" on gratuitous "use" or "quotation marks" either. :) Dustin,
I work for an
Dustin,
I work for an advertising agency. This is definitely turning into an epidemic. We get copy from clients all the time that’s chock full of gratuitous capitalization. And the worst offender? My Creative Director, of all people. Not good.

And you’re not alone in being annoyed by it. Don’t get me “started” on gratuitous “use” or “quotation marks” either. :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://dwax.org/2008/01/27/why_all_the_capitalization_lately/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-180 Jesse: Glad to see I'm not<br />Jesse: Glad to see I'm not alone! Gratuitous "quotation marks" I can understand -- there's a long history of people using them incorrectly. The Capitalization thing gets me because I don't remember ever seeing this say 10 years ago, and the rules for capitalization are pretty simple in English: the beginning of the sentence and proper names. Evecor: Germans might be funny, but at least they're consistent: if it's a noun, it's capitalized. It's true, Americans aren't much for spelling and punctuation -- getting it right would be too much like learning something, and if we started itnegrating learning into our education system ,who knows what would happen?! But it's strange to see what seems like a spontaneous mass degradation of a rule that is, as I said, really quite simple. I expect to see oddly-placed quotes and apostrophes, bizarre commas, and words spelled like they sound (taking things "for granite", for instance) but to see people suddenly and apparently individually start making the same weird mistake... Shakes my faith in humanity, it does! Jesse: Glad to see I’m not
Jesse: Glad to see I’m not alone! Gratuitous “quotation marks” I can understand — there’s a long history of people using them incorrectly. The Capitalization thing gets me because I don’t remember ever seeing this say 10 years ago, and the rules for capitalization are pretty simple in English: the beginning of the sentence and proper names.

Evecor: Germans might be funny, but at least they’re consistent: if it’s a noun, it’s capitalized. It’s true, Americans aren’t much for spelling and punctuation — getting it right would be too much like learning something, and if we started itnegrating learning into our education system ,who knows what would happen?! But it’s strange to see what seems like a spontaneous mass degradation of a rule that is, as I said, really quite simple. I expect to see oddly-placed quotes and apostrophes, bizarre commas, and words spelled like they sound (taking things “for granite”, for instance) but to see people suddenly and apparently individually start making the same weird mistake…

Shakes my faith in humanity, it does!

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