From an English Professor -- short and to the point

[Playinghardball]

From an English Professor -- short and to the point

In the world of hi-tech gadgetry, I've noticed that more and more
people who send text messages and emails have long forgotten the
art of capital letters.

For those of you who fall into this category, please take note of the
following statement:

"Capitalization is the difference between

Helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse."

Author unknown

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good one! And, thank you! n/t

[Duer 157099]

2. Fortunately I don't have an Uncle Jack

or know anyone that does, because doing caps on my phone is a bitch. If the phone doesn't add them automatically it doesn't get done.

[EastTennesseeDem]

3. I neither have an uncle named Jack nor an uncle who helps people off horses.

And if I did, I don't know why I would text anybody about it.

[whistler162]

4. sO tRue!

[lunatica]

5. Is it the Purple People Eater, or the purple people eater?

That has always been the great unanswered question in my life.

[Ptah]

6. Let's eat Grandpa.

Let's eat, Grandpa.

[sarge43]

7. Lighthouse keeper.... light housekeeper n/t

[GeorgeGist]

18. My son when searching for his first lodgings complained ...

that one of the ads required light housekeeping, and he didn't want to live in a lighthouse.

[sarge43]

19. Did you clue him in or mess with his mind? n/t

[elleng]

8. Sorry julie can't capitalize

in middle of sentence with my phone. You'll just have to try to understand my meaning.

[MicaelS]

9. Most Excellent, certainly applies to some here n/t

[libodem]

10. I don't like seeing

The small i for I. Or the lack of a capital to start a sentence. It seems lazy and disrespectful.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Refusing to use capital letters is an annoying affectation

that occasionally appears on DU. It makes those posts irritatingly hard to read, so I don't read them if they're longer than about a sentence. (Note to people who think it's cute to use all lower-case letters: More people would read your posts if you didn't do that.)

[FloridaJudy]

11. Punctuation

The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. The panda eats shoots and leaves.

Or else he commits armed robbery of a restaurant: The panda eats, shoots, and leaves.

[libodem]

14. My style evolved

Quite a bit once I started posting at DU. I stared out stream of consciousness flowing, with three dots at the end shortly after I found out no periods made all the sentences run together.

Someone posted in the Lounge that they detested posters who wrote in elipticals. I thought, oops, my poetic prose sucks to other readers.

I eventually even figured out how to drop down for a new paragraph. I didn't know what key did that for a long time.

I was very reticent to learn how to use a computer. DU made me do it. I blame this place.

[annabanana]

15. Those of us more prone to musing

than to declaration demure. . . .

[pokerfan]

16. Punctuate this sentence so it makes sense

James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher

[annabanana]

17. James, while John had had "had",

had had "had had". "Had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

Trick question.. It's TWO sentences.


edit: typo