charmed

[ialman]

i remember one of my colleagues making an observation about the way i relate with other people. she said it was amazing how i was able to charm those around me. this is a particularly useful skill in my profession as a lawyer. to heck about my clients not taking me seriously. the point is that i wouldn't have to grease the hands of so many people,

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[anonymous]

why don't you capitalize the I and the letters at the start of your sentences? Just curious, has it become an internet norm? :)

[ialman]

i doubt whether the lower case phenomenon is an internet norm, although it is something that i have been doing for a very long time, and it is something which i've noticed a lot of people do as well. now there may be some e.e. cummings inspiration behind that, but in my case, i guess i am just lazy to press the shift button so often. notice however, that i consider email and the internet as a highly informal medium, hence the preference to UNcapitalize, except for acronyms. but in my formal messages and articles, i do capitalize. it doesn't happen when i write longhand. in my old paper bound journal, i not only spelled correctly, but also punctuated and capitalized properly.