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A Lesson In Grammar From The Teacher; The Use of Capitals
Topic Started: Jul 9 2011, 04:39 PM (337 Views)
Bluebird
Paul Tait
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In the world of hi-tech gadgetry, texting and tweeting, I've noticed
that more and more people who send messages and emails have forgotten
the art of capitalisation.

For those of you who fall into this category, please take note of the following statement:

"Capitalisation is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse,
and helping your uncle jack off a horse!"

Is everybody clear on that now?
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maulley54
Mikael Forssell
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who gives a t@$$, your uncle or the horse
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worcesterblue81
Mick Harford
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maulley54
Jul 9 2011, 09:14 PM
who gives a t@$$, your uncle or the horse

lol


:LMAO:
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rob
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Ian Handysides
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Either way, it sounds messy :unsure:
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Woodbine
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Mikael Forssell
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The word 'uncle' should not be capitalised.... unless starting a sentence, of course.

Reminds me of a TalkSport phone-in a few years ago when a bloke phoned in to complain about his experience with a black cab driver. The host (James Whale) lambasted the caller for mentioning the cab driver's colour, calling him racist. The caller soon put Whale in his place when he said it was a black-cab driver, not a black cab-driver.

The importance of the hyphen has diminished too, unfortunately. I'm sure I read somewhere that the Oxford English dictionary people had removed thousands of hyphens from their listings.

edit: From Wiki..... 'In 2007, the sixth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary removed the hyphens from 16,000 entries, such as fig-leaf (now fig leaf), pot-belly (now pot belly) and pigeon-hole (now pigeonhole).[1] The advent of the Internet and the increasing prevalence of computer technology have given rise to a subset of common nouns that may in the past have been hyphenated (e.g. "toolbar", "hyperlink", "pastebin").'
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