I always thought CAPS were shouting. Looks it to me. Bold looks more
like dramatic intonation. And your German looks like German. All is
right with the world.
-jc
On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 05:42 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In a message dated 8/2/2003 3:36:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Please Ralph. Spare me the details. Normally covered anotomical parts
> and geometric shapes don't belong in the same sentence, let alone
> hyphenated into a single word. "hyphenated into a single word..." now
> THAT sounds like German, i.e., the famous
> Donaudampfschifffahrtliniegesellschaftsgeneraldirektoriumsgemählerinnen
> . Except of course there are no hyphens.
>
>
>
> Some exhibit I saw up Nort pointed out that no one seems to make much
> of a fuss about the headwaters of the Ohio, or the Missouri...both of
> which are arguably more significant than the Mississippi, in terms of
> volume or commerce, beyond the points where they seperate from the
> lower Mississippi. So I got to wondering...where ARE the headwaters of
> the Ohio, the Missouri, the Hudson, the Connecticut and them other big
> rivers? Can you have your picture taken sitting in the middle? Are
> they small enough that if Ralph were to sit in the middle it would
> wreck the downstream economy? Ralph is getting big enough without his
> thyroid juice so that downstream (or upstream) economies may be
> wrecked in any case, no matter where in the river I sit.
>
> Or maybe those other places have other things to worry about...like
> botschafts. A Botschafter can also be an ambassador, which is the
> sense of the word with which I was familiar, and why I was more than a
> little confused to see (along with the rest of you) that Lisa had a
> Botschaft (which I initially took to be "an embassy") for Cuyler.
>
>
>
> I trust this matter has now been sufficiently clarified.
>
> On a related note, I am advised by a left Coast correspondent that use
> of bold face in an email is considered to be shouting. From having my
> knuckles rapped (so to speak) early on by a Pinhead masquerading as a
> nun (or vice versa), I understood that use of all caps was considered
> shouting. Will somebody please explain?
>
> Ralph
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