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LadiesBladewing -> RE: Y/you, A/all, U/us (10/9/2005 10:14:59 PM)
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This developed in the online community, since using capitalizations on names and pronouns was limited, in many online venues, to dominants only, and submissive individuals were required to use lower-case letters for their names. Some individual down the road (probably a submissive individual) got reamed for making a mass greeting and not properly greeting the dominant individuals in a way that was recognizeably separate from those who were submissive individuals, yet that person -still- didn't want to do separate greetings, and developed the "Y/you" thing as a way to differentiate between those who were submissive and those who were dominant in mass publication.
It caught on, I think, because in the online world, so many people insist on their "status" being recognized, so it made people feel good to be set apart and recognized, and the process went on and on.
In German, all nouns are capitalized -- not just proper nouns. That takes some getting used to for most of us. In the same way, the online community "got used" to seeing those types of terms used, and they became sort of a standard.
To me, I much prefer to see proper grammer, punctuation, capitalization and spelling used, though I will also use capitals for emphasis at times (including when I capitalize things as archetypes). The slashed capital/lower-case thing, to me, is unnecessary and annoying, and I don't promote it among any of our servants who happen to participate in groups online. (We also use 3rd person speech in our household, but if a servant is under that restriction, he or she does not participate online while it is in place, except to post in an electronic journal if that is the agreed-upon form of journaling. Personally, I still prefer my servants to use paper journals, but flexibility prevails among our leadership, and some of the guides like getting the journals online. *shrugs*)
Lady Zephyr
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