Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 14:14:26 -0500 Subject: Re: lurking... From: "bob brown" <vacirca-AT-charm.net> dear lurking lise, i hate to lower the high intellectual level of this discourse, but the only reason i don't use caps when typing online is that it saves me time, however i could easily put forward a rationale for cursive anarchy and rebellion both re caps and spelling if yu really want to go there lol. bob brown -- "solidarity means sharing the same risks" - Che ( la solidarita significa correre gli stessi rischi) ---------- >From: LFontaine <LFontaine-AT-teaser.fr> >To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Subject: lurking... >Date: Thu, Apr 4, 2002, 1:46 PM > > Hello > > just a comment on no capitals... I view it as conforming to the medium or > perhaps rather allowing the medium to shape us? I suppose it comes back to > a question of degree of formality and what the group is willing to accept > or not, but then again, maybe not (dot dot dot) > > Lise > who also is going back to lurking! : ) > > At 00:34 04/04/02 -0800, you wrote: >>Isn't it apparent, by looking at the posts below, that writing without using >>caps isn't really all that unique? I mean, not to take away from good old >>American individualism, but reading posts without caps is rather annoying. >>Can't we harness our individualism just a tad for the good of the rest? >> > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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