There's also bell hooks, of course. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > >
