Mama Cass Elliot wrote:
> In netscape.public.mozilla.general the people heard Gord McFee say these
> wise words:
>
>>The word "It's" should not have been capitalized.
>
> Inless one wanted to place an emphasis on it. Capitalisation is the
> traditional method of providing verbal stress.
That's "unless", not "inless".
Second, if you wanted to put emphasis on "it's" (although, in context, I
can't see any reason to do so), you would capitalize the entire word,
not just the first letter.
> But then, many people are deprecating the use of capitalization everywhere
> except for proper nouns and the beginning of sentences.
Only when it is used incorrectly as you did.
>>"Seeya" is incorrect.
>>"wanna" is incorrect.
>>"ya" is incorrect.
>
> Actually, they ARE correct in spoken, and in dialectical English!
They are not correct in proper written English, which is the medium one
uses in these newsgroups so everyone can understand messages.
The point though, was about the lameness of spelling flames. :-)
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Gord McFee
I'll write no line before its time
