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Luke Winikates wrote:

> Eep² wrote:
> > Exactly--that's why I capitalied it COMPLETELY--see? more
> > emphasis--amazing; perhaps I should post in HTML so I can use
> > bold and italics, eh? It's not the same kind of capitalism anyone
> > with half a brain would understand. Perhaps I should have been
> > more specific and used "1st-letter capitalization" but I honestly
> > didn't think people here were that incompetent at understanding
> > what I meant. Of course only the true trolls would bother to "call
> > me on it", the putzes they are. Typical...
>
> Eep, for all I care you can emphasize words by typing them backwards and in
> leetspeak set to iambic pentameter.  You can tape down your shift key, or
> you can go the e e cummings route.  You can even put inside quotation marks
> things that were not actually said.
>
> For the moment, though, put away the Yiddish dictionary and don't refer to
> me in the plural as if I represented some sort of mass conspiracy working
> against you from the dark shadows of usenet.  Also drop the pretense that
> you evaluate the validity of writing-related complaints by checking to see
> if the (supposed) error impedes understanding.  Capitalizing
> "action-adventure" doesn't make it any more difficult understand, yet you
> complained about it.  Why should I adopt a more liberal rubric in evaluating
> you than you use to evaluate others?

Because you need to learn the English language correctly.

> I thought it was funny that you got all Elements of Style on somebody over
> capitalization immediately after using your own nonstandard capitalization
> scheme.

Uh, all-cap emphasis is HARDLY non-standard, Luke; in fact, it IS the standard in non-HTML (ASCII--no way of bolding/italicising and asterisks around words just looks stupid) textual communication.

> That the two uses of capitalization were meant to serve different
> purposes didn't seem relevant at the time, nor does it now.

Of course they're relevant and vital in proving my point. There IS a difference between 1st-letter capitalization and full-word capitalization ("all-cap"). If you had one ounce of a clue you would realize this and would not continue replying foolishly showing how truly little you know and understand about the English language.

Get the fuck over it already.