DESTANDARDIZE LANGUAGE.

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Purposive Capitalization

It is Desirable to Capitalize at Will. A.E. Milne does this in the old-school Winnie the Pooh books, to great comic Effect. Remove the ban against voluntary Capitalization within the sentence, if the writer is so inclined. It adds a further layer of nuance, complexity and Xpression. From college papers to technical journals to novels to newspapers, refuse the lower-case at Will.

Logically it follows that any letter within any sentence may be capitalizeD.

Among other fun effects, this allows one to emphasize syllables as if eNUNciating VERy CLEARly.

HOPEFULLY ONE CAN AVOID THE SHOUTING EFFECT OF THE ALL-CAPS SCENE. So USE A LITTLE JUDICIOUSNESS ABOUT IT. THAT'S THE DEAL WITH ALL THIS SHIT - YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. BUT WHAT YOU WANT HAS TO BE GOOD.

The Spellling Connexion

Destandardize Language would like to endorse alternative, sometimes archaic but always pleasing, Anglicized spellings for common Americanized spellings of certain words:

connection = connexion
complection = complexion
reflection = reflexion
show = shew
gray = grey
shit = shite

More added as they come up around the offices here.

Flexible spellling should be tha rule for alll writing, on ev'ry dockument. Az long az mos' peeple can figure it out, go for it.

The point is to stay loose and free. It's YOUR language, isn't it?