OT: what's with the 'i'?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/31/2013 12:52 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:55:08 +0000
> Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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,
> Could be various reasons.
> It's a multi-cultural list.
> English as 2nd or 3rd language.
> users may not have a western-style keyboard.
> Maybe dyslexic (in rare case spell-check could complicate matters)

I **AM** dyslexic and live and die by my speel ckecher.

Oops.

Really, without 4th grade remedial speach and reading (back in '59) I 
don't know where I would be today.

> Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)

I am that too.

> Eyesight not corrected to 20/20.
>
> or just don't give a fiddlers.
>