{"id":697,"date":"2003-07-20T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2003-07-20T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/07\/20\/my_capitalization_rules.html"},"modified":"2003-07-20T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2003-07-20T12:36:08","slug":"my_capitalization_rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/07\/20\/my_capitalization_rules.html","title":{"rendered":"my capitalization rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/000601.html\">moving notice yesterday<\/a>, Rory made reference to my odd rules for capitalization.  As many folks know, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danah.org\/name.html\">my name does not have capital letters in it<\/a>.  When i was going through the process of changing my last name (and cementing the non-capitalization of my name), i did a lot of thinking about rules around capitalization in general.  It always bothered me that &#8220;I&#8221; was a special case in english.  Of course, i find it inherently indicative of the culture that we live in.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it bothered me enough that i decided that i didn&#8217;t need any capital letters when i refer to myself.  Not only is my name not capitalized, but i&#8217;m not that special.  Plus, one of the main reasons to capitalize the letter was to typographically indicate it in a culture where everything was handwritten.  In computer-land, it&#8217;s easy enough to see it separate from the rest.  Of course, i still believe in capitalizing certain things &#8211; those of importance and letters at the beginning of a sentence to indicate that a new sentence is about to begin.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be a bit funny though to start capitalizing You since i definitely believe that You is more important than i.  Tehehe.<\/p>\n<p>I will refrain.<\/p>\n<p>Fact of the matter though is that my capitalization rules are just part of my quirks (except for that associated with my name, which are due to my mom&#8217;s quirks).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my moving notice yesterday, Rory made reference to my odd rules for capitalization. As many folks know, my name does not have capital letters in it. When i was going through the process of changing my last name (and cementing the non-capitalization of my name), i did a lot of thinking about rules around [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","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=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}