[LINK] literacy (not computer literacy) and GUIs

Adam Todd at@ah.net
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 00:42:58 +1100


>I agree with all that Craig Sanders wrote, but observe that his pattern
>of not capitalising "I" and the start of sentences is a form of
>illiteracy which seems to have been arisen from a text-only computer
>environment: the frenetic, and (I think) rather low-quality, text-only
>activity of Internet Relay Chat and its proprietary instant messaging,
>ICQ etc. lookalikes.

Goodness me!  I always capitalise the text!  It's so frustrating reading 
someone who is so damn lazy as to not hit the shift key at the right 
time.  It's not that hard!  Like Driving a Manual car, clutch in, change 
gear ...

I guess that's why they have Automatics.