2013/1/31, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com>:
Way way OT:
Just out of interest, why do some people use the non-existent word "i",
not to mention other violations of capitalization rules when 1) their
Shift key is clearly not broken, and 2) they aren't the poet e.e.
cummings? I've seen a number of people do this (admittedly a tiny
minority) and never understood it. Do they think it's cool? Are they
expressing their inner rebel? Were they punished by their English
teacher at school? Is hitting Shift too much effort? Enquiring minds
want to know.
I'd think it's the coolness thing. But highly intelligent people do it
occasionally, so I have no clue either. One such person I know of was
Erik Naggum, though I can't find an example here
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erik_Naggum. But Usenet is full of them.
A funny one:
"you have been evaluated. you have a negative reference count. prepare
to be garbage collected. persistence is futile."
http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3150641
439642768(a)naggum.no.html
Andras