On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:19:20 -0500, Dan put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Franc-My wife's 30-something boss is like that. NEVER a cap in her
emails.

Franc's Koolness Guide
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I've noticed that there are varying levels of "koolness". The first
level involves dropping *all* capitalisation. The downside of this
approach is that it appears contrived. Quite simply, if you have to
work at being kool, then you are not kool. More convincing is the
removal of capitals only from within the bodies of sentences. For
example, one could convert all occurrences of "I" to "i". However,
even this approach lacks the spontaneity to be considered really kool.
Much better is to alter every other instance of "I", or to capitalise
every other sentence, or to sneak in the occasional typo, so as to
make it appear that a flying, time constrained finger *accidentally*
slipped off the shift key.

I told her the same thing about the woman; it's a "my time is
too important to waste on common courtesy" affectation.

Pretentiousness is the character flaw I despise the most, probably
because I see it as the precursor to more serious failings. I try to
ignore these people, but sometimes I'm compelled to retaliate.

Dan

Franc Zabkar wrote:

You've missed the point. The illiteracy is *intentional*. It's a kool
new fad, just like ripped jeans were twenty years ago. A person who
doesn't have the time to reach for a shift key or to punctuate a
sentence is the jet setting cognoscente of today. He/she cannot spare
the milliseconds needed to add legibility to a
stream-of-consciousness-like outpouring of the mind. Their time is too
precious. That wasted second could mean the difference between
catching their next international flight, or being on time for their
next board meeting or some other event on their hectic social
calendar.


Good bye.

Tony.


- Franc Zabkar
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