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Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

2012-05-16 10:08:56


On 5/16/2012 7:56 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
But your claim is actually a symptom of the disease you've diagnosed:
computers obliterated distinctions that are important in the writing
of natural languages, mostly because case transformation for ASCII was
a trivial task and treating these differences as meaningless saved
some work.  Many have stopped treating case as meaningful.


ahh.  it's computerization THAT HAS COMPLETELY CHANged MeaNing.

gOOd to NO.

d/
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 Dave Crocker
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