Hey William
If you ever decide to peer into the mind of a Lowercase L perp, I am afraid you may be sorely disappointed. Look what I just did.
I have no idea how it happened. I don't remember ever writing a Lowercase L before in my life. Maybe I have been reading your site too often? Maybe it's contagious?
All I know is that I wrote the uppercase "C" followed by the lowercase "L" with the full intention of continuing in lowercase letters. And yet for some reason my hand insisted on the uppercase.
It threw me so much that I even misspelled "EXPENSES" in the second word.
At some point in the future I am going to find this envelope and wonder who or what CIANCY EXPENCES are. How embarrassing.
Paul
Inspired by lowercase L, Paul also has a new photo blog — Look for Signs of Life!
4 comments:
I think Paul has the answer. He says he fully intended to keep writing lower-case. I contend that some sub-system in the brain interpreted the lower case "l" as an uppercase "I" and shifted him into Upper Case mode.
What do you think?
It is not clear from my comment that I mean lower case "l" as an uppercase "i"
Just to clarify there.
Simon, your theory could be correct. And sometimes it even works in the opposite direction, with examples that don't quite fit the criteria for this site: an author will write all uppercase, until they get to the L, which they write lowercase for some reason, and then all the following letters turn lowercase, too. The L seems to be a literary fork in the sentence road!
I love the picture, he's so disappointed with himself!
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