On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That brings me to wonder, why capital letters came to be, at all...or, to be
> more precise, why there are capital and "small" letters, some of which
> actually look different from each other....? Are there scripts other than
> the Roman, which have capital letters? Capital letters seem to be a way of
> distinguishing the word from the others in the sentence in some way...how do
> other scripts do this? "mera naam krishna hai, mein punjaab sey aaya hoon"
> seems perfect without the capitals....

The curious case of danah boyd (the lowercase is intentional -
http://www.danah.org/name.html).

-- Vinayak

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