Tuesday, April 29, 2008

as heard on the radio

lets consider grammer/punctuation for a moment.i am too lazy to use caps. however, i heard an interesting question today. 

what does capitalizing the first letter of a new sentence accomplish that a period (or the like) does not?


6 comments:

Seye said...

nuthin

Seye said...

you going for my record for number of posts in a month?

charlie said...

not a damn thing.

Anonymous said...

thats interesting.


speaking of slam dunk, i just recalled the name of the song we used in puttin on the hits freshman year of high school--Slam Dunk Da Funk. by, i have no idea.

that is a pretty terrible song. I think even then i hated it.

Änna said...

Perhaps it signifies that it is in fact a period, and not an abbreviation such as Mr. or a decimal point.

peter hafer said...

i was thinking about that, titles seem self-explanatory right? when would you end a sentence in Mr. without spelling out mister or something like that?

on the other hand, the sentences: "i work for blaine inc. do you like stawberries?" are more likely

is it a stretch to say that the end of the sentence is still identified? maybe if the ideas were more closely related it would too confusing.

so then are all sentences capitalized for the infractions of a few abbreviations? that seems silly.