one interesting thing that happened to me while i was working with mal on polishing the post, was that for the first time, i put some thought into why i don't use traditional capital letters in my blog writing. these days, i find that i'm so accustomed to NOT capitalizing (except for dramatic effect), it's actually a bit difficult for me in my work-related writing to use proper capitals.
i found myself explaining to mal why i didn't use capital letters and what came out was interesting, even to myself, because until i typed it out, i honestly hadn't thought about it before. i had completely unconsciously decided not to use capitals and as it turns out, it was for a very good reason. it was actually the first step in my healing process after leaving my job.
you see, the company, which religiously uses personality profiling and a logic test in their recruitment process, uses those scores as part of their plot to build you into a little ego machine..flattering you that only the best of the best get in to work for them...and you become this very Me Me Me I Am So Great person. it's actually a diabolical part of how they convince you to work 60 hours a week and travel 200 days a year and more than a little ironic in light of the fact that one of the company values is supposedly "humbleness." i realized that i abandoned the capital letters when i began blogging because it felt like a way to step away from that over-inflated ego/sense of importance i had acquired working there.
so that's why although you may still see plenty of traces of ego here on moments of perfect clarity, you don't see that many capital letters.
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thank you because - I have thought about this more than once. I thought it might have to do with writing articles and the editing process... who knows what happens when this mind wanders!
p.s. 70 and growing I see - you rock! (oops that goes against the ego thing, doesn't it)
Interesting... I mostly do use capitals, but writing poetry cannot bring myself to place a capital at the start of each line in the traditional way. It just seems to change the character of the poem and the way it is looked upon. I don't have a philosophy to back this up, but because of it I found your post absorbing.
I've never thought about it but I go back and forth between the two - sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The only times it bothers me is with I/i. Weird huh - is that an ego thing? How Freudian.
I've never thought about you not using capitals. it's interesting how you could see a reason why you chose not too use them.
I always wondered why you didn't use capitalization! I find it a little hard to read your posts without them. But now I know you have a good reason! :^)
I have actually noticed that a while back and I always thought about it as your signature style - no capitals. It's interesting and different and stylish, I wish I thought about that first :-)
Thanks
Polly x
I'm a lower case girl myself...but like lanie {char} there is that i/I thing I struggle with too....it just has to be I I I if I'm taking about me me me......
Ah.
BTW - I loved the post about your studio - and it made me drool.
i like the lower case julie
P.S. I am still posting. Blogger has a problem and my new posts are not being feed to other bloggers' bloglists so it appears as if I am stuck with Florence!
I am feeling very lonely today!
interesting. i find it's harder to use lower case, actually. that it takes more discipline not to capitalize--especially the personal pronoun i, ironically enough. i'll start something in uncaps, because i, oh don't know, want to be cool like julie, and before i know it, the caps sneak in. so what does that say about *my* personality?
-Gwen
Very interesting blog! I hope mine are as interesting!
Too bad Mal stopped blogging. Always loved to read her posts.
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