File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2002/postcolonial.0204, message 70


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)

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>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?
>>
>
>
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