What is the philosophy behind those people who do NOT capitalize the first letters of their names. For instance, they identify themselves as john smith. There is a reason and I believe I knew it once but it escapes me now. Thank you!
2007-07-05 15:49:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it depends on the ideology. If you look at e.e. cummings, he was doing some fairly absurd poetry that experimented with language. It only fits to have a name that is similarly distanced from mainstream usage.
bell hooks, on the other hand, is a feminist who believes that language is a patriarchal structure designed to keep women down through certain hierarchies. Capital letters are there as honorifics, so she does away with them in order to destroy the power that a male-dominated language has over her.
2007-07-05 16:08:30 · answer #1 · answered by schuttz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The internet is supposed to be fun. I capitalize my name all the time for formal things, but on fun sites I don't worry about it.
2007-07-05 15:55:16 · answer #2 · answered by rebekkah hot as the sun 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps they feel tiny and insignificant in this big, big world.
I don't know.
I just happen to like lowercase letters myself, and I also like odd numbers, and clubs and hearts versus spades and diamonds. Just little quirks of mine.
Email me if you have a psychoanalysis!
2007-07-05 15:54:05 · answer #3 · answered by aminah 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I forget, what was the reason TO capitalize, its still the same name, is it not?
2007-07-05 15:53:28 · answer #4 · answered by karen s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look up
e e cummings
2007-07-05 15:53:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most skeptics do not capitalize God on this site. That's even worst.
2007-07-05 15:53:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hitting the shift key is too much work?
2007-07-05 15:52:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
It's supposed to be a sign of being humble. What it actually is, is bad grammar.
2007-07-05 15:53:00 · answer #8 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I honestly don't know. I have never noticed or heard about that before. Sry
2007-07-05 15:56:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not practiced enough to use the shift key?
2007-07-05 15:52:09 · answer #10 · answered by Daniel P 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋