ever so 'umble
Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Mon, 08 Mar 1999 15:52:24 +0000
Just do your best, Grover. That's all anyone can reasonably ask.
But to take one more chew on the bone - & this goes to
Will Hochman also - surely it takes an act of deliberation
to eschew capitals? Do you write to your mum like that?
Or your bank manager? I know love letters bring out
the infantile in all of us, but not - please God - to that extent.
If you assure me that your other typed communications
are also in lower case, then I'll accept that the whole thing
is a genuine expression of speed & economy. But most
of us, in learning to type, acquire the habit of 'shifting' quite
automatically. Afterwards, it becomes really quite hard
to override that instinctive movement of the little finger.
Most readers as they look at a script in that lower case
mode have a sense of something out-of-the-ordinary,
a sort of attention-seeking, some kind of special pleading.
Far from invoking the feeling of relaxed informality, rather
it imposes a kind of distance, a pose of 'I'm much humbler
& less pretentious than you....'
Scottie B.