2013/1/31, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com:
Way way OT:
Just out of interest, why do some people use the non-existent word "i", not to mention other violations of capitalization rules when 1) their Shift key is clearly not broken, and 2) they aren't the poet e.e. cummings? I've seen a number of people do this (admittedly a tiny minority) and never understood it. Do they think it's cool? Are they expressing their inner rebel? Were they punished by their English teacher at school? Is hitting Shift too much effort? Enquiring minds want to know.
I'd think it's the coolness thing. But highly intelligent people do it occasionally, so I have no clue either. One such person I know of was Erik Naggum, though I can't find an example here http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erik_Naggum. But Usenet is full of them. A funny one:
"you have been evaluated. you have a negative reference count. prepare to be garbage collected. persistence is futile."
http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3150641 439642768@naggum.no.html
Andras