Re: ever so 'umble
Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:02:04 -0600
scottie-i type in lower case only to this list. mostly i do it to
differentiate my posts from those of Matt Kozusko or one of the numerous other
"matt's" who drift in and out of the bananafish sea. if it really is
difficult to put up with i suppose i could learn to type my last name...matt
> 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.
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