Lowercase i's in scene releases? leet speek?

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by darkhorizon, May 6, 2006.

  1. darkhorizon

    darkhorizon Private First Class

    why is it, that most of the time when i see someone write in all caps,
    they dont capitalize the i? LiKE iF THEY WERE WRiTiNG A SENTENCE, ALL
    THE i'S WOULD BE LOWERCASE. Is there a real reason for this?

    anyways im clueless on the issue and was wondering if someone could
    shed some light
     
  2. Lance Bombardier

    Lance Bombardier Private First Class

    Blame e.e.cummings
     
  3. Lev

    Lev MajorGeek

    That's simple.

    The probably typed it with the Caps Lock button down without knowing, and they don't touch type. So they don't see they are typing in caps until they finish, and then can't be bothered to erase it and type it in lower case. The i isn't capitalized because, thinking they were already typing in lower case, they press the shift key to capitalize the i. However, with the caps lock on this has the opposite outcome, hence the i's appear in lower case instead. Well...that works for the word "i" as in "I am", but not for the letter i appearing mid-word.
     
  4. star17

    star17 MajorGeek


    Morse-code trainees.
     
  5. darkhorizon

    darkhorizon Private First Class

    lol, no its not ee cummings fault (not that i knew who that was before a google search)
    and the caps lock thing is deff not it cause its consistent in the middle of words too

    morse code trainees? sorry you lost me on that one

    but like this, i saw a link for a torrent file named this:
    FiNAL.DESTiNATiON.3.REAL.PROPER.TS.XviD-PUKKA

    whats with the lowercase i's always like this ?
     
  6. Lev

    Lev MajorGeek

    lol..with a sideways look on life?
     
  7. star17

    star17 MajorGeek

    Thus the title "trainee". ;)
     
  8. Lev

    Lev MajorGeek

    Uhuh...I just wanted to prove I understood your jokes :p
     
  9. goldfish

    goldfish Lt. Sushi.DC

    Because the I's look like 1's if you capitalise them ;)
     
  10. Insomniac

    Insomniac Billy Ray Cyrus #1 Fan

    What's worse are people who "fink itz kool 2 type lik this".

    (They don't capitalise the i because it looks like an l )
     
  11. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    FiRST iV HEARD OF iT
     

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