capital letters

'I helped my uncle jack off a horse.' this seems like a very strange sentence to use out of context. perhaps someone asked you 'what did you just do.' you could say 'i helped my uncle off a horse.' but perhaps you want to tell the person your uncles name in a single sentence. Y\you could just write 'i helped my uncle, jack, off a horse.' this would not only signify that jack is the name of the uncle, but it would be a better parallel to how that sentence would be spoken aloud. and despite the fact that you provided many example names that are spelled the same as verbs, this type of phrase doesn't actually come up very often. consider 'my cousin chase has a dog.' obviously you wouldn't mistake chase for a verb, because then there would be no subject. the reason that the sentence above behaves as it does is because 'jack' could function as either a subject or as a verb. the only time this would ever occur is in a sentence that can use the name in both a two word subject phrase with the name as the second word and in a two word verb phrase where the first word is the name. just because there are names that are spelled like verbs doesn't mean that this is a problem that this is a common problem. 'peroids are small, while capital letters are big'c'mon, you're saying we should continue to use two seperate sets of letters for the sake of the elderly? not only do half the capital letters look exactly the same as the regular ones, just slightly larger, (c-C, s-S, o-O, v-V, ect.), but all of the letters in these documents are literaly smaller then ants. if a person can't distinguish periods from commas, they will probably have other reading issues as well, hence large text books.a note on distinguishing sentences: when i said this, i didn't mean distinguishing individual sentences from each other, but distinguishing different types of sentences, like perhaps only capitilizing quotes or some other sort of rule."getting rid of capital letters would make our language more efficient, something any language should strive for."you said that i didn't provide sound logic for this argument. my reasoning for this statement was that becuase you where able to understand my round 1 statement perfectly without my use of capitals, then capitals don't, in many cases, serve any purpose in making a text more readable, therefore removing them would make writing out something quicker and more efficient. i can see how you might have missed this reasoning, becuase i had hidden it all the way IN THE SENTENCE RIGHT BEFORE THAT ONE. and this brings me to the point of using capital letters to change your tone. i'll admit that capital letters can be useful when you want to express anger or iritation. but wouldn't the paragraph seem much more pleasant if i hadn't used caps? consider these two sentences: "how could you have been so stupid!?" "HOW COULD YOU HAVE BEEN SO STUPID?!" in both sentences, a sense of yelling is demonstrated, but the second one seems unecessarily urgent. you can use standard punctuation to give the same message without seeming stupid. on your statements over how spelling and grammer can often be a good way to tell noobs from pro's, i disagree with you. in my experience, often the person who is best at math or sience is the worst at spelling and grammar. sometimes even the greatest genuises don't to use capital letters.