Uppercasians vs lowercasians

Blackamp

Death

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18 Jan 10

expuddlepirate

Exaulted high possum

here...again

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19 Jan 10

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Originally posted by expuddlepirate
Da haben Sie ja recht gesproken.

....fur ein Grossbuchstabenmensch.

Kewpie

Felis Australis

Australia

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19 Jan 10

Nothing like a bit of *********** to kill a thread. 🙁

AThousandYoung

1st Dan TKD Kukkiwon

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19 Jan 10

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
I must look into the Reason wherefore the Nouns of the English Language ceased to be written in Capital Letters at some Point after the Eighteenth Century.

It was a good Custom, was it not? It made your Proclamations seem so much more important.

Very Rusty

Treat Everyone Equal

Halifax, Nova Scotia

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19 Jan 10

Originally posted by Kewpie
Nothing like a bit of *********** to kill a thread. 🙁

Well stop that then!

Bosse de Nage

Zellulärer Automat

Spiel des Lebens

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20 Jan 10

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
It was a good Custom, was it not? It made your Proclamations seem so much more important.

Not only that, it had the Felicity of distinguishing Things from Deeds at a Glance.

Gulliver's Travels were written in that style, to name one example of a fantastic book written funny.

I have to say it helps me with German -- things get a little complicated sometimes and visual aids help!

mikelom

Ajarn

Wat?

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20 Jan 10

Originally posted by ich binimKopfweg
I don't think so.

I think so!

Andy is perfectly correct. The use of 'and' in the context it was used is called a 'conjunction'. A conjunction joins two sentences which could be independent of each other, but it is easier and much better English to join them. The sentence I just wrote also contains the conjunction 'but.' Note the comma before 'but'!! 😉