Capital letters

Hello and welcome to the blog that isn't a blog really.

For those of you scratching your heads and wondering why words like January and British are written without capital letters in some of the headings on this blog after teachers like myself have persistently drummed into your heads that those capitals are necessary and that "English isn't Spanish" and so on, let me just explain that this is done for stylistic effect (just ask E.E. Cummings*).

A bit like me signing off at the end of each post in all lower-case letters.

I didn't program the template HTML, that's how it comes! It also looks that bit "cooler" (apparently) even though it's technically wrong. A bit like all those Spanish people with "ñ"s in their names that have to change then to "n"s or "ny" or whatever on their email addresses.

Wrong, but tolerated due to technical limitations.

But don't ever think of doing it on a piece of written work though.

Or in a letter.

Or even in an email.

Because what might look cool to some people in a certain place looks a bit silly to others.

Ever see all those funny text messages written at the bottom of the screen during those afternoon television shows?

Then try and imagine they were written by a retired army general and not a spotty teenager.

*P.S. : I wouldn't seriously recommend asking E.E. Cummings... he's dead, you know. An ex-poet, he has ceased to be... etc. etc.