I ask a small favor of Mr. Hamster (was "shouted down" etc)

I ask a small favor of Mr. Hamster (was "shouted down" etc)

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!

Mr. Hamster, for the love of God, could you *please* CAPITALIZE the first
letter of your sentences?!?!?  I'm certainly no stickler on sentence
formation, but your unique lack of any capitalization whatsoever in page
after page of text jangles even my low sensibilities like fingernails on a
blackboard.

I knew e. e. cummings, e. e. cummings was a friend of mine.  Mr. Hamster,
you're no e. e. cummings.

I sincerely believe that if you did this one small thing, all problems on
this mailing list will instantly vanish.

;-)

Gary R. Van Sickle
Braemar Inc.
11481 Rupp Dr.
Burnsville, MN 55337


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Re: I ask a small favor of Mr. Hamster (was "shouted down" etc)

[Randall R Schulz]

Amen!

I consider this rude, disrespectful and an offense to me and my native 
language. Although I read _every_ post to Cygwin@cygwin.com, I skip over 
the ones that deliberately abuse English.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 16:14 2001-06-29, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!
>
>Mr. Hamster, for the love of God, could you *please* CAPITALIZE the first 
>letter of your sentences?!?!?  I'm certainly no stickler on sentence 
>formation, but your unique lack of any capitalization whatsoever in page 
>after page of text jangles even my low sensibilities like fingernails on a 
>blackboard.
>
>...
>
>Gary R. Van Sickle


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Re: I ask a small favor of Mr. Hamster (was "shouted down" etc)

[Thomas Widlar]

"Gary R. Van Sickle":
> That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!
> 
> Mr. Hamster, for the love of God, could you *please* CAPITALIZE the first
> letter of your sentences?!?!?  I'm certainly no stickler on sentence
> formation, but your unique lack of any capitalization whatsoever in page
> after page of text jangles even my low sensibilities like fingernails on a
> blackboard.
> 
> I knew e. e. cummings, e. e. cummings was a friend of mine.  Mr. Hamster,
> you're no e. e. cummings.
> 
> I sincerely believe that if you did this one small thing, all problems on
> this mailing list will instantly vanish.

I think this linguistic quirk is a window into the thinking and
"individuality" of the writer. I don't think fixing the
capitalization would stop the blackboard scratching.

Thomas Widlar

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Re: I ask a small favor of Mr. Hamster (was "shouted down" etc)

[Fred T. Hamster]

Thomas Widlar wrote:

 > "Fred T. Hamster":
 >
 > > it could be an affectation...  {snip} could it just be what feels 
best to me?
 >
 > The window opens. All of the above plus annoy.

 > > i will probably stop capitalizing in the manner that appeals to my
 > > sensibilities just after the rampant misspellings on the net stop for
 > > good... 
 >
 > I'll stop torturing the dog when Johnny likes spinach and can
 > play the violin.
 > Thomas Widlar

    sigh...  i know i opened a window by responding, but i felt 
compelled to since this thread got started with my name in it.  lower 
case email has never been a real issue before.  i suspect it's not much 
of a real issue now either, since the first posting was pretty humorous. 
 my blank verse style response (quoted partially above) really shouldn't 
be taken as much more than the puerile attempt at humor it was intended 
to be.  (note to self: and neither should thomas' email perhaps.  maybe 
i'm missing deep wisdom though.)
    all this started when i submitted what i thought to be a fairly 
reasonable bug report regarding zip... 
 ( http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg01507.html )  it is pretty 
bizarre how the issue changed, and i do admit that i over-reacted to or 
misinterpreted the sense of people's responses a few times.  i don't 
think i'm unique in that regard; some here have been honest enough to 
admit their misinterpretation of my meaning as well.
    thanks to the list's contributing members, all of my questions have 
been answered.  only thing i know of that's pending is an investigation 
into the glob() function by yours truly.
    i can't help but suspect that this particular "favor" thread really 
is a huge waste of time, and not just for myself.  i vow to stop 
responding on it, despite any potential provocations...  but it does 
seem off topic and unnecessary.  once i've apologized for a 
transgression (iratus cerebrum eruptus), i don't consider it necessary 
to do it over and over again.  if someone didn't believe it the first 
time, that person is not going to believe it the second or millionth 
time either.
    any real issues you have with me--let's talk about them in private 
email.  i suggest others do the same.
thanks,
fred.
ps: please stop torturing dogs...

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Re: I ask a small favor of Mr. Hamster (was "shouted down" etc)

[Thomas Widlar]

"Fred T. Hamster":
> it could be an affectation...  or it could be that i think i'm ee
> cummings reincarnated...  i could have lost my shift buttons and caps
> locks...  or i could be doing it IN OPPOSITION TO THE PEOPLE WHO SHOUT
> in their email...  could be a neural problem...  might be a habit...
> demonic possession is a long shot...  wouldn't be doing it to annoy; my
> personality already does that more than enough for me...  could it just
> be what feels best to me?

The window opens. All of the above plus annoy.

> i will probably stop capitalizing in the manner that appeals to my
> sensibilities just after the rampant misspellings on the net stop for
> good...  

I'll stop torturing the dog when Johnny likes spinach and can
play the violin.

Thomas Widlar

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Re: I ask a small favor of Mr. Hamster (was "shouted down" etc)

[Fred T. Hamster]

  it could be an affectation...  or it could be that i think i'm ee 
cummings reincarnated...  i could have lost my shift buttons and caps 
locks...  or i could be doing it IN OPPOSITION TO THE PEOPLE WHO SHOUT 
in their email...  could be a neural problem...  might be a habit... 
 demonic possession is a long shot...  wouldn't be doing it to annoy; my 
personality already does that more than enough for me...  could it just 
be what feels best to me?
  i will probably stop capitalizing in the manner that appeals to my 
sensibilities just after the rampant misspellings on the net stop for 
good...  kind of like johnny cash wearing black until the world changes, 
but without the music (or the cash).  when the net has perfect spelling 
and grammar and word choice, there would be no reason not to fall in line.
--fred
ps: that's not it either.
pps: is this really on topic?
ppps: why don't we start spelling like Ls, Cp, TelNet, and StartX too? 
 that would be fun.

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