late night convos amuse the hell out of me

[ursamajor]

Me, reading Geek Feminism headlines aloud: "Will you be a sexy witch, a sexy bee, or a sexy girl-geek for Halloween?"
hyounpark: "Because whatever it is, it's gotta be sexy! Like, how about a sexy ... entomologist?"
Me: "Oh, like Bambi?"
hyounpark: "..."
Me: "On the X-Files."
hyounpark: "..."
Me: "She was an entomologist! And Mulder couldn't stop staring at her chest!"
hyounpark: "... you aren't making this up, are you. Oh, boy."

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Also, this came across my reading path elsewhere, and it amused the hell out of me, and I totally need to iconify it:

"Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse."

Comments

[lithiana]

i've never been much of a fan of capitalisation. i don't think it avoids ambiguity, since the real meaning is always clear from the context, and the standardised capitalisation we take for granted nowadays is actually a recent phenomenon -- only a couple of hundred years ago, people would capitalise pretty much randomly, inserting capital letters all willy-nilly wherever they felt like it.

unfortunately, eschewing capitals seems to be such a departure from modern standard english (my spell-checker is underlining "english" with a wavy red line) that many people will assume you must be illiterate, or just stupid, or in some other way not worth paying attention to. i must therefore subjugate myself to the whims of the language imperialists, and litter my writing with your so-called standard capitalisation.