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