capital letters

1) Uncle Jack off a horse"I don't see how i used semantics. i first demonstrated how you could solve this problem using only standard punctuation, and potentially improve the sentence....was there some other point?"The point was that Capital letters can drastically change the meaning of a sentence, instead of acknowledging this you attacked the example instead by arguing that "oh this never happens" or "I would have wrote it differently". The point still stands that the capitalization of simply one letter can completely change the meaning of a sentence and therefore makes capitalization very useful, effective, and necessary. 2) Separating sentences"if a person has difficulty distinguishing sentences they will probably have other reading problems. that's why i suggested large print books."Thats 1) Yet ANOTHER semantical argument where you dance around the point that capital letters help people distinguish between 2 sentences and avoid the main argument, and 2) Your own opinion about how you would do something differently (use larger text) rather then use capital letters just because it suits you. All the pro has done is substitute his own opinions into his arguments and use them to somehow underscore the clear usefullness that capital letters have."capital letters are not generally that much larger or different from minuscule letters anyways."^ EXACTLY what im talking about. Whenever I make a solid point in support of the use of capital letters, all the pro does is give his own opinion on how he would have fixed the problem differently and then leaves it at that. 3) Efficiency of English"getting rid of capital letters would make our language more efficient, something any language should strive for. i felt that i explained my reasoning by saying that by making writing easier without changing the meaning that it would make the language more efficient."But making something simpler doesnt make it more efficient, because again that is merely your own opinion. My example with the Uncle Jack off a horse is more then enough evidence to show that removing complexity from language can easily alter the comprehension of a sentence, which indicates that the more complex a language may be, the better you can understand it. Removing capital letters makes English simpler, but it doesnt make it more efficient (as ive shown) which means that capital letters make English (and all languages for that matter) more efficient at the expense of being simple. 4) Using all caps to make a point" just because we want to be intense doesn't mean we need all caps to express it. generally, the person who writes in all caps is not all that smart because if what they had to say was relevant they wouldn't need all caps to get peoples attention." Im not aruing that a point NEEDS to be in all caps to make an impact, im arguing that the use of all caps when used correctly can greatly increase how much attention it receives from readers. Anyone who still recalls my comments about what Manatees can do knows this to be true. "in this way, information doesn't need to be in all caps to be memorable, it just has to be memorable."The argument here isnt that relevant arguments NEED to be in all caps to get across to someone, its that all caps are very useful when you want to get the readers attention or create a certain tone to the sentence. "caps are very rarely used at all to distinguish proper nouns from other words,"They are used that way all the time...."and when they are there are simple ways around it using punctuation."Which does absolutely nothing to counter the fact that capital letters are very useful to comprehension and meaning of a sentence. "there is no compelling reason to capitalize the first letter of every sentence"Because you blatantly ignored all the valid points I gave and danced around them. Capital letters help people distinguish between two sentences and in response to this point you only recommended that all text should have larger proint to counter this problem. "and capitals are often abused by the internet public"Big frickin deal. The internet public also abuses words like troll, noob, and curse words as well, but that doesnt mean we should ban those too. "in general, capital letters serve as an unnecessary burden to an already confusing language"MASSIVE opinion that is also blatantly false "finally, as a bonus example, my entire argument went unchanged without me using any capitals."Tell that to the guy who is reading this late at night who is struggling like hell to figure out where your sentences start and end....==========================================================================Conclusion1) I have shown that capital letters are immensely important in the message they convey in a sentence which the Pro has failed to address properly. 2) Capital letters are used to separate sentences and make comprehension easier for those whose reading abilities arent 100% sharp, the pro simply danced around this argument by saying "Then use larger text"3) Capital letters make English more efficient even if at the same time makes it more complex, and the pro claims that making things simpler = making them more efficient, even though he provides no evidence to reinforce such a claim (just his opinion) and when evidence suggests otherwise. 4) Capital letters are very effective in getting a point across to readers, the pro argued that you dont need capital letters to get a point across which wasnt even the argument. (argument was that all caps can be effective, not necessary to make a point) 5) Capital letters greatly provide the tone of a sentence by expressing emotions associated with the use of all capital letters at certain points (Pro actually conceded this point)6) Yes Manatees can really do that.