capital letters

Lets examine the following two sentences. "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse""I helped my uncle jack off a horse"Now in sentence one, Jack is capitalized, meaning it is a person. The capital letter shows that you were helping you uncle whose name is jack, get off of a horse. In sentence two however jack is not capitalized, and you end up saying that you helped you uncle give sexual favors to a horse and continued to do so until the horse ejaculated sperm out of his horse penis....That alone should be enough to argue how important and useful capitalization is. Just from capitalizing ONE letter you can completely change the meaning of a sentence. There are several names people have that could also serve as verbs:Bill, Buck, Buzz, Chase, Chip, Chuck, Drew, Jack, Pat, Rob, Stone, Sue, and those are the ones that are just off the top of my head. There is a great potential for proper names to be confused with verbs, and capital letters are immensly important for distinguishing between which is which. "getting rid of capital letters would make our language more efficient, something any language should strive for."And why should we be forcing English to get more efficient? You havent given any reason for why we should other then "well we should" which doesnt fly around here. "how, exactly, does capitalizing the first letter of a sentence augment the sentence in a positive way?"Consider the elderly, or for that matter anybody who struggles to read small text.... People who have trouble reading smaller text benefit from capitalized letters because it helps them identify when a sentence has ended and when a new one has started, something that young people can do with ease but older people start to struggle with. Capitalized letters help distinguish between sentences which helps with your efficiency claim you were talking about earlier. Without capital letters it would easily look like a sentence goes on and on and on and on....."the period or punctuation mark already tells you that the sentence is over"Have you ever seen the size of a period? By god, it is literally smaller then an ant, its fairly easy to miss whereas capitalized letters are much easier to spot and let the reader know a new sentence has started. "and since you capitalize every sentence, it's not as if it distinguishes certain sentences from each other." Thats exactly what it does though! Capital letters are mostly used to distinguish between sentences. "finally, and arguably most importantly, there's the new problem facing IMing and forums of noobs who talk in all caps. this is the event where some self important idiot talks with caps lock on because what they have to say is so important that it has to be in bigger letters then everyone else"NO IT ISNT, SHUT UP, YOURE BEING STUPID. "this is an irritating problem that would be solved if caps where removed from our language."Using all caps isnt just used for noobs who are trolling. They are often used to express shouting over the internet or to make a point, which is something you could never do with all lowercase letters. LETS FACE IT, WHEN YOU READ THIS YOU IMAGINE THAT IM SHOUTING IT, AM I RIGHT?Point proven. "simply because they forget to use capital letters, they are often shunned"Well they should be, if youre too dumb or lazy to hold down the "shift" key when you hit one letter then its fair to call into question how idiotic you may be. In fact, a notorious number of noobs use terrible grammar when making arguments online when more seasoned and wiser members use correct grammar when they argue. This means that since bad grammar is associated with mindless idiots, then if all people were to talk like mindless idiots then everyone else would think they are talking to a bunch of mindless idiots..... And we would all be typing like we are mindless idiots as well. ==========================================================================In summary: 1) Capital letters do clarify the meaning behind sentences 2) They greatly clarify comprehension of a text 3) They can give your sentence a different tone of voice (all caps = shouting) which is something you cant do with lowercase4) Capital letters help old people, tired people, and others who struggle with reading to distinguish between sentences.