My poetic and artistic license has been revoked?!
Can I no longer capitalize the 'P' in Perspective? Or the 'U' in Universe? Or whenever I feel that communication is enhanced thereby?
I didn't spend more than half a century learning the language and how to express myself so some grammer nazi can jackboot all over a living thought and 'cleanse' it of all meaning...
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I often spend hours crafting my posts and every capital letter or semi-quote is deliberate and well thought out.
There might be an occassional rare typo. Tough. I don't get paid for the time that I generously spend here.
It is not an 'error', it is a choice (and sometimes sticky keys on the keyboard)!-not capitalizing the word I
Sometimes I do not. Usually in differentiation between an egoic 'I' and a non-egoic 'i'.
I share ur your distaste of text-messege and lazy (or 'creative'?) EnGliSh, but I'd rather hear some wonderful creative semi-literate spontaneously expressed thought, than some anally perfect rechewing of some already been chewed to death century old bumpersticker 'philosophy'!
I gotta tell you, for whatever it's worth, if I start getting harassed for my language (a new world requires a new language! Where do 'you' think that it should begin?!) or syntax or creativity, I will leave. Very simple.
Them's my fealings!
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