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You are all probably familiar with
Myspace, the online social network that is becoming increasingly popular with young teens and adults alike. You may have even found this blog from a link on
my Myspace account. Since lowercase L's are usually the product of handwriting, it was a special treat to find not one, but two cases in Myspace! The first one, above, is a letter from a fan of my
Shabot 6000 cartoons. His lOVE for Shabot is eclipsed only by his grasp of how to use the caps lock key properly.
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Then there's this cute gal, purportedly from Yugoslavia, who proudly displays her Myspace name as AlEXANDRA. I don't know who she is, but I will forgive her use of lowercase L because she's probably using one of those complicated Yugoslavian keyboards. AlEXANDRA, if you are out there, I invite you to state your case here.
3 comments:
I lOVE this site. I think it is a prefect companion to my site that is devoted to errant uses of apostrophes.
i'm enjoying this site. i would like to add regarding the handwriting of lowercase 'l' - when it's written the way you have it displayed - it can be confused for a capital "i". some people (including myself on occasion) just do a straight veritcal line to represent this letter. so if one is reading a handwritten document - it could possibly be an 'I' or a lowercase 'l'. interesting confusion, eh?
"... it could possibly be an 'I' or a lowercase 'l'. interesting confusion, eh?"
Yes, Lee, in fact, this is lowercase L's raison d'ĂȘtre!
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