I just learned yesterday that the powers that be (whoever they are) are trying to eliminate the semicolon; and everyone knows the world needs more colons. Leave it alone!
“Mortar matters. A house with cracks, cannot stand.” I’m not sure—-been watching a lot of videos recently on some ancient Chinese Japanese, and even Egyptian construction techniques. As an example, weren’t the pyramids built without mortar, just by accurate block stacking.? That works great for retaining walls too. Maybe lowercase serves only as a counterpoint to uppercase; the Germans capitalize all nouns, we only proper ones. But what’s the use of clogging our letter system with twice as many characters as necessary? 52 letters instead of 26.? Ain’t copacetic! Let’s kill the letter c while we are at it and replace it with a k on the hard and an s on the suave. Now we are down to 25. Har har. Keep ‘em coming, Tom. Food for thought is the best! (Because it does not pack on the pounds).
I have noticed this trend creeping up, and yes, it is annoying and quite dumb! Glad to see you put some words to the trend...
Amen! It drives me nuts.
I agree with all this, but to be fair ALL CAPS is even worse.
Very true.
I just learned yesterday that the powers that be (whoever they are) are trying to eliminate the semicolon; and everyone knows the world needs more colons. Leave it alone!
They can pry the semicolon from my cold, dead, carpal-tunnel-racked fingers!
“Mortar matters. A house with cracks, cannot stand.” I’m not sure—-been watching a lot of videos recently on some ancient Chinese Japanese, and even Egyptian construction techniques. As an example, weren’t the pyramids built without mortar, just by accurate block stacking.? That works great for retaining walls too. Maybe lowercase serves only as a counterpoint to uppercase; the Germans capitalize all nouns, we only proper ones. But what’s the use of clogging our letter system with twice as many characters as necessary? 52 letters instead of 26.? Ain’t copacetic! Let’s kill the letter c while we are at it and replace it with a k on the hard and an s on the suave. Now we are down to 25. Har har. Keep ‘em coming, Tom. Food for thought is the best! (Because it does not pack on the pounds).