Kevin's Watch

I'm thinking of changing the capitalized I and just using i from now on. It requires me to hit an extra button on my key board, which i frequently can't be bothered to do. Why should i? Why is it capitalized anyway? Using i is much less imposing and seems somehow more humble and respectful.

i tried that. It's harder than You think.

I don't think I could if I wanted to, it would just feel wrong.

well..first of all, stop thinking. Make a decision and do it. I use excessive amounts of the comma and elispes. I like to slow down the reader to a more conversational nature of communication. Thats my excuse and I am sticking to it. ee cummings did his thing,,i can do mine. So can you.

I don't think it really matters. When i is not capitalized, it is not a different word in English, so I don't think anyone will be confused. I don't really want to train myself to type it without the capitalization, but if you feel like typing it in lower-case, I'm not going to stop you or think poorly of you. Now, when I teach English classes, I still require my students to use "I" instead of "i", but I am required by law to teach Standard American English (whatever that is supposed to mean). This web site is not my classroom, and never will be.

Old habits die hard, says I.

i am always me.
i am a lazy typist.
i never capitalize i.
the only time i capitalize i
is when i'm copying lyrics
and pasting them in the
fav lyrics or dedicated or
any other thread.
if i have to amend the lyrics
or correct them in any way
i make the corrections
then i have to go back through
and change all the I's to i's,
unless i'm too lazy at the time.
which i usually am.
i vote forget the shift key.

Can't wait until the final results are announced. "The 'I's' have it"

My problem is the opposite...I've had to fight against a tendancy to capitalise everything.

Any word that is important anyway.

--A

My years of training in English literature forbid me from endorsing the use of lowercase "i" in reference to a person. However, it is still a free world, so I say do whatever makes you happy.

lIke lucImay saId, why lImIt yourself to not capItalIzIng only I's??? It's an extra keystroke to capItalIze the fIrst word of a sentence as well.

I may do just the opposIte and capItalIze only I's. hehehe.

ur-bane wrote:lIke lucImay saId, why lImIt yourself to not capItalIzIng only I's??? It's an extra keystroke to capItalIze the fIrst word of a sentence as well.

I may do just the opposIte and capItalIze only I's. hehehe.

rIght on.

Wyldewode wrote:My years of training in English literature forbid me from endorsing the use of lowercase "i" in reference to a person. However, it is still a free world, so I say do whatever makes you happy.

Exactly. Besides, it's not in my best interest to antagonize the IiIiIiIiIiIis...

eye get it!

The capitalized I probably has something to do with that whole ego-dominated Anglo-Saxon culture thing. I can't think of another language in which the first-person singular pronoun is capitalized, tho I'm sure someone will come up with one as soon as I post this....

At one point, when I was a news person, I used to type all my copy in lowercase. It saved all kinds of keystrokes (and we were using manual typewriters, so saving keystrokes was a big deal). Then I worked at a place where we did everything in uppercase -- just hit "shift lock" and off you go. Of course, you can't do uppercase-only on the Innernetz (hey Luci, I remembered! ) because then you get accused of shouting. Sigh. Rules is hard.

well as you know i hardly ever use the upper case. mainly for emphasis. do away with it!

I say do away with capitalization and punctuation so we all sound like robots.

JazFusion wrote:I say do away with capitalization and punctuation so we all sound like robots.

we should write in cursive.

sgt.null wrote:

JazFusion wrote:I say do away with capitalization and punctuation so we all sound like robots.

we should write in cursive.

You can write in cursive if I can write in Aurekbesh. Or Tengwar.

we should TYPE in cursive!