On Nov 1, 2006, at 5:11 AM, Andrii (lOkadin) Zvorygin wrote: OK - there is one user. But unless you can make some pretty good arguments, it's still harder to read and non-standard. The main issue with sticking majuscules (aka big letters or upper case) in the middle of text is that is messes with how we read. Fluent readers don't actually read letter by letter anymore, but by shape of the letter outlines. And all the vowels are normally shorter than a majuscule or an ascender (like h). So making them tall by capitalizing them means I can no longer read the text fluently, but have to slow down and look at individual letters like I did in elementary school again. Which is much slower. Is thIs tExt EAsier tO rEAd? I thInk nOt, becAUse yOU cannOt rEAd It At A nOrmal pAce bUt hAve to slOw dOwn. (It Also lOOks prEtty Ugly.) Try it, write out some text in English in all lower case, normal mixed case, accented case, and all upper case. The normal mixed case is what you've trained your brain to read best after years of near constant practice. It doesn't take kindly to messing that up.
Yes, but can it parse Lojban without finding word boundaries? |