case sensitivity
Sean Fagan
seanf at sco.COM
Wed May 3 04:04:36 AEST 1989
In article <1331 at ns.network.com> ddb at ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes:
>But in practice nobody gets particularly bent out of shape if somebody writes
>"Well, then we won't have the blasted thing done until august, I guess."
>The formal convention is there, but it doesn't seem to be what people use
>for figuring out the meaning of the sentence.
Maybe, but consider:
"We dropped a stick of dynamite down the pole and *whammo*!"
versus
"We dropped a stick of dynamite down the Pole and *whammo*!"
One is likely to get you cited for vanalism, the other for murder.
See what difference a little punctuation can make?
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