I was thinking one morning in school and an odd idea crossed my mind, “What if Capital letters were nothing more than a formality.”
This thought was perfectly confusing to me. The mere idea that something we were taught in 3rd grade was so important was nothing more than smoke and mirrors to force us into the formality setup for us by our predecessors, caused immediate panic.* I found it perplexing that we were taught the importance of capitalizing the beginning of sentences, names, important places, and religious figureheads when none of it is really, completely, necessary. Frantically I ran through as many scenarios in which not using capitalization would make a sentence completely incomprehensible. I couldn’t find one.
steven and his mother had a remarkable conversation about god that i happened to hear while eavesdropping in durango.
Can you understand the above sentence? If you answered yes, than you just proved my point. If you answered no, than you have less logic than a celebrity.** Obviously steven is a persons name, god is God, i is myself, and durango is a location of some sort. You must look into the sentence to pickup some of the pieces and figure out what is going on sometimes, but that’s not too hard.
I was amazed at this discovery, Completely shocked that no one I knew had ever considered this. I had to tell my friends and see what they thought. The acted like it was nothing, I assume they weren’t looking into it deep enough. Troy opposed the idea, claiming that capitalization was a vital part of literical communication and a perfectly necessary formality of the written form of the English language.*** I just had a breakthrough of the English language. I found conclusive proof that English is unnecessarily formal and could do without some of its rules, and no one cares. Oh well, I found it interesting.
*yeah Its odd but I kind of panicked
**yeah I just insulted a genre, but you probably thought of one person, shame on you for judging them. (unless, of course, you have personally met them, then you can assert whatever opinion you like and I won’t condemn you.)
***He is a formal kind of guy, so his opinions weren’t neutral
Interesting stuff dude, interesting stuff.
Capital letters have their uses. For instance differentiating Earth’s Moon and other moons that orbit other planets. And how about acronyms? Have a look at thisWikipedia article on capitalisation. But it is true (to a certain extent) that sentences can be read and comprehended without proper capitalisation.
Oh, by the way, why should someone be ’shamed’ for judging others. I mean, everyone does it all the time don’t they? Maybe *unfairly* judging people is wrong. But who’s to say what’s fair and what’s right? Beh, excuse me for pretending to know what I’m talking about?…