{"id":1248,"date":"2004-07-08T15:57:03","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T15:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/07\/08\/more_thoughts_on_capitalization.html"},"modified":"2004-07-08T15:57:03","modified_gmt":"2004-07-08T15:57:03","slug":"more_thoughts_on_capitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/07\/08\/more_thoughts_on_capitalization.html","title":{"rendered":"more thoughts on CaPiTaLiZaTiOn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still fascinated by the CaPiTaLiZaTiOn that appears online.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/06\/16\/anyone_here_from_singapore.html\">When i posted about it last<\/a>, folks gave me some *great* pointers.  Since then, i&#8217;ve followed up on the Azn style and started talking to people.  I talked with folks about different spelling styles that emerged with chatrooms and BBSes.  I talked with folks about the motivation for spelling words phonetically.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this has obvious technical roots &#8211; like pager culture.  There&#8217;s also a desire to be writing in an encoded fashion so that outsiders can&#8217;t tell what is being said.  Folks also write this way because it&#8217;s cool or because it lets them personalize text.<\/p>\n<p>When thinking about it, i realized how much this was common even in class notes.  Remember the hearts above the i&#8217;s or the backwards slanted writing?  It was all about personalizing the communication &#8211; giving it character.<\/p>\n<p>Digital modes of textual presentation are very prescriptive.  You have a choice of the following n fonts.  Each letter looks the same.  There&#8217;s no emotion in the letters.  It&#8217;s sooo boring.  No wonder folks have come up with ways of expressing themselves through the typography as well as the text.  Think graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>By doing this, people are pushing against an emphasis on the text.  They are challenging that text as text is nothing; it&#8217;s all about the surrounding features of the text.  There was once an art to typography; people haven&#8217;t lost that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still fascinated by the CaPiTaLiZaTiOn that appears online. When i posted about it last, folks gave me some *great* pointers. Since then, i&#8217;ve followed up on the Azn style and started talking to people. I talked with folks about different spelling styles that emerged with chatrooms and BBSes. I talked with folks about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}