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Modern e-mail culture has shown that many English speakers feel perfectly comfortable dismissing all uses of capitalization — and even correct spelling, for that matter.
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After all, couldn't one just as easily obsess about the founders' odd use of capitalization?
QUESTION FROM RACHEL: I love your use of capitalization in his voice.
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Most of them either are informed by some whimsical typology, signalled by the free use of capitalization — he thinks that Faulkner's novels are best understood as examples of the Fairy Tale, and that Edmund Wilson, one of the least dandyish of human beings, is a specimen of the Intellectual Dandy — or state the obvious, in run-ons that would make a freshman blush.
Kahn was not really a writer, and his book — six hundred and fifty-one pages — is shaggy, overstuffed, almost free-associational, with a colorful use of capitalization and italics, long excurses on the strategic lessons of the First and Second World Wars, and the sorts of proto-PowerPoint charts and tables that Kahn used in his lectures.
The UL stands for UnLimited — and please notice ASUS' trendy use of capitalization there.
It is being produced by amateur authors and is expected to have all sorts of inconsistencies including under or over use of capitalization, spelling mistakes, shortened words, slang, swearing, etc.
Looking back at the use of big data in banking, few would have predicted it was possible to prove a correlation between correct use of capitalization when writing your name online and your credit worthiness 20 years ago.
The use of capitalization and colons for section names can be very inconsistent within and across documents.
A partial solution to this problem would be the use of capitalization rules for genes and proteins, even if this strategy would not work with three-letter gene names.
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