OT: what's with the 'i'?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/01/2013 01:44 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 01.02.2013 01:35, schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
>> Reading is not done letter by letter or word by
>> word, but in larger units, and every time I see 'i'
>> instead of 'I', it interrupts my train of comprehension
>
> well, that is your personal problem
>
> in fact here in german speaking countries there are
> way more words which are normally not written lowercase
> at all but nobody has a problem these days read sms, email
> and so on without a single uppercase letter

Harald, you're in error. Many German speaking people consider style of 
writing you are using here, to be rude, disrespectful and childish - I 
am one of these.

Sure, it's tolerated in private SMS correspondence, but no so in written 
correspondence.

Ralf