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General chat: upper case
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- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeJul 9th 2009
lets nip the trend for upper case in the bud please
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- CommentAuthorDavid
- CommentTimeJul 9th 2009
We are NinjaI prefer sentence case personally. Although camel case is perfectly acceptable in Eugene's Lair.
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- CommentAuthorunaesthetic
- CommentTimeJul 9th 2009
You all know why caps is called 'upper case' and …er… lower case is called 'lower case', right? -
- CommentAuthorShaunG
- CommentTimeJul 9th 2009
erm... perhaps not? Do explain.
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- CommentAuthorinjoke
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
because there were two different keys before shift buttons were invented? one upper one and one lower one?
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- CommentAuthorinjoke
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
the etymology of the word "cliche" is interesting. in the days before moveable type some french newspapers would have whole common phrases on a key which you could then click, hence "cliche".
ok more coffee
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- CommentAuthorkrappyrubsnif
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
@unaesthetic because typesetters stored metal type in two cases - the one at the top was the big letters? -
- CommentAuthorMarquis
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
'minuscules' is the other word, by the way. -
- CommentAuthorbennyfromtheblok
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
MAJUSCULES - great word. -
- CommentAuthorunaesthetic
- CommentTimeJul 10th 2009
krs - exactly
marquis - of course! i just couldn't put my finger on that word last night!
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