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LEARN SOME USELESS THINGS
some fun facts (YAY):
[01] i don't write in capitals.
[02] i never capitalize my name.
[03] i don't feel like i'm important enough, enough to stand apart.
[04] i am not prejudice towards big and small letters.
[05] but mostly it's because i'm too lazy to hit the shift key.
i do, however, capitalize acronyms.
as far as i'm concerned, i haven't properly followed the code of conduct when it comes to capitals - no "i's," first letter in the beginning of sentences, proper nouns - since i started writing online. oh, what a rebel i am! however, i happen to think i follow grammar and syntax by the book. hopefully, my punctuation isn't weirdly; placed ''and. used,
man, that took awhile to type.
i hope my writing is still easy to read, even if it is lacking some Big Letters. this habit is the result of laziness (all the bad ones are), but now i suppose i have deeper reasons that touch a bit beyond indolence.
i used to capitalize e.e. cummings' name in papers, even if he wished not to be. throughout the years, i've realized that people have stopped capitalizing my name in some cases. that's seriously exciting.
(my excitement might come from the small things, but i'm okay with that)
now, i respect mr. cummings' requests because someday, i hope people can respect mine, too.
i partially follow his philosophy in that syntax, punctuation, and the like (-hint-capitals!) don't mean much. granted, i'm very thankful for whoever decided "," this would separate dependent clauses and "/" this would separate lines of a verse. it makes for a much organized literary world. anyway, his poems hurt my brain much too much, so i just stick with leaving all the letters the same size instead of having weird spacing ; & sp3lng>
i don't really know what i'm saying anymore.
the reason i don't capitalize my name is genuinely because i don't think i'm important enough. the idea behind capitalizing proper nouns is because they're so cool, they deserve to catch people's eye (eyes? yeah, i guess some people have more than one eye). if there existed a famous chicken named clucko, of course we'd want to see Clucko. it's easier to notice.082106.
i'm not a famous chicken. i'll let it pass if i'm not noticed in writing. connie will suffice.
bottom line is: while i once upon a time used to be too lazy to hit the shift key... i still am. happyfresh! i've just developed pseudo-reasons/excuses to explain the absence of capitals.
(to any concerned teachers - i still capitalize outside of the internet! cheers!)