gees..i've been using lower case in most of my web commentary and non-business email for years.

no high-falutin' motives here though....it started once in the middle of several months of software documentation, when my wrists started to bother me. so leaving out the shift key during non-essential writing eased things up a bit.

...plus i know it pisses people off. heh.

You have stumbled onto something great, Mark. _____ think you should pursue it.

In Mark's case, I would suggest he stick to the lower case i and not switch to Jan's ______ since that would add about 4-5 extra shift finger action, which is a bad thing. However, not capitalizing I just seems lazy to me. Indeed Mark, it is annoying, at least to me, to see i instead of I.

...yea, but when i'm writing in cursive (on paper...where most of my posts begin their lives) the letter i is so much easier to get down.

plus, nobody gets hurt (i think)

Wow, I should have put those "I's" and "i's" in quotations, they don't read out very well. A hypocrite I have become. I was too lazy to put quotations, so I left them out.

somehow, i feel like i'm now one step closer to posting on the "50 Cent" thread...

I knew someone at uni who insisted on using the lowercase for his name, basically, a pretentious asshole. He had a sugar canister in his kitchen labeled "white death". We put a canister with a dead rat in it beside it labeled "Black death".

Hah, stupid hippy.

I find her arguments unconvincing. How is using 'yn' instead of 'en' less male-derived? 'Gyn' as in gynecology isn't even pronounced the same. I? I think that capitalizations (but not unnecessary ones) aid the eye by breaking up the text. And, when talking about oneself, the attention is supposed to be focused on the subject -- I. Methinks Tree is one of those people who spend a lot time focusing on aspects of writing instead of having something worthwhile to say.

Oh my, it just struck me Mark says he applies pen to paper! How quaint. It has been ages since I've done that at all often. Perhaps the Luddite can tell us more about his pre-modern habit-:).

The obvious pcification of "human" would be "huperson." Problem solved.

Oooh. The White Zombie song becomes the much improved, "More huperson than a huperson," etc.

"Man's inhumanity to man" becomes "Person's inhupersonity to person."

"To err is huperson, to forgive, divine."

I got a million of 'em.

Ah but what about the aspect of perSON? Son would also refer to a male child of a parent. Then you have to go PCify that.

Y'know, before it got hijacked by right wing groupthink junkies, the phrase "politically incorrect" was the property of Maoists, especially for self-criticism sessions.

I don't know which is more damning, that Maoists let loose this bludgeoning phrase, or that those who wear their jackboots with wing-tips expropriated it.

And Happy New Year to you too, we're living in the future!

(And yes, I do own a Mao suit, really!