OT: what's with the 'i'?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Fri Feb 1 08:53:26 UTC 2013



Am 01.02.2013 07:29, schrieb 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

fine that i work with people for which is content more
important than style - the other way is childish for me

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