�I think in the future, capitalization will disappear,� said Professor Sterling, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. In fact, he said, when his teenage son asked what the presence of the capital letter added to what the period at the end of the sentence signified, he had no answer.
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"Finally, most non�Latin scripts do not even use the concept of lowercase and uppercase, as in the case of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean; Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew; as well as Thai."
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
"Finally, most non�Latin scripts do not even use the concept of lowercase and uppercase ...Arabic"
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
Objection to the "degrade" epithet. While there are languages (scripts, to be precise) that use capital letters, there are many that do not. They work just fine.
Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer :
So while everybody might be fine once we're used to the changes Jeanne outlined, until we're there (and that might never happen to anyone who learned languages like we did), it could be rather disconcerting for at least some of us.
Originally posted by Pat Farrell :
The upper case forms were kept in an upper case
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Originally posted by marc weber:
English is evolving
it's the adjustment that's difficult
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Originally posted by Jeanne Boyarsky:
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marc,
Yeah. This whole thread was just to get at you. Just kidding. err j/k
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Originally posted by marc weber:
I knew it!
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Originally posted by Jeanne Boyarsky:
[QB]I don't associate English with England now. Granted I know where English came from, but I don't speak that dialect.
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Originally posted by marc weber:
THIS IS SO COOL!!!
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Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
marc, it's just a tool of our capitalizationist oppressors. fight the power, man!
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Poor marc, his keyboard is clearly broken
Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
... Minnesota -where marc hails from- simply does not have the most RAM, and thus is stuck with Web 2.7, while most of us have moved on to Web 3.1...
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My roommate is a desperate texter
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Regards Pete
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Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
The esthetic problem ... of written Arabic.
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