[muglo] Re: net etiquette

I'm sorry I forgot to put the [OT] when I sent it so sent it again with 
the [OT]!!!  Sorry for the confusion!!

Paul

On Jan 20, 2007, at 11:35 PM, Paul Thomas wrote:

> Hi Garth
>
> True, we do, of course, use the term "capitals" probably because in the
> past people called them that because they started the names of country
> main cities. Capitals, with a capital letter like, London (my theory).
> However the correct term is Upper Case which goes back to the time when
> newspaper print was set up manually by a typesetter who kept the
> individual character type pieces in two cases - one above the other.
> The Upper case contained all the Capitals and were therefore called
> Upper Case characters whilst the regular characters were in the Lower
> Case and were therefore called Lower Case characters!!!  No doubt the
> upper case was above the lower case because more use would be made of
> those characters!!
>
> This has nothing to do with Mac computers as such so I have marked it
> as [OT] but as Garth implied the question and as I started the matter,
> I thought the least I could do was to offer an explanation!!  Thanks
> for your time if you bothered to read this!!
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul
>
> On Jan 20, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Garth Phillips wrote:
>
>> I always thought the correct word for "capitals", was, well, capitals
>> (which explains the "caps lock" key on my keyboard)!
>>
>> I enjoy frivolity too much I suppose, so my apologies in advance to
>> all.
>>
>>
>> On 2007, Jan 19, , at 19:29, Paul Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Going back more years than I like to remember, TTY (or should that be
>> tty?) had only Upper case (the correct name for capitals - which are
>> really the most important cities!) and also the earlier computer
>> displays so you didn't have a choice!!!   Sorry, I am being frivolous 
>> I
>> guess but to me this seems to have gone on long enough!!!!!!
>>
>> paul - to avoid using an upper case character!!!
>>
>> On Jan 15, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Garth Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> Boy, am I ever relieved to hear that... I guess I'm OK
>>> then.
>>>
>>> :)
>>> --- Gerhard Kuhn <gerhardk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You are much less a rebel than you imagine yourself
>>>> to be.
>>>> Gerhard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 15, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Garth Phillips wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And in truth, I've never been really good at
>>>> standing in
>>>>> line with everyone else.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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