Why I'm A Capitalization Freak
by
Leigh G.
copyright 01-25-2007
Age Rating: 10 to 127
I've commented on something by most of the authors on PnP, and if I've commented on your work you most likely heard me ranting about capitalization a time or two. Many times if you don't do it. Well, I was looking at old homeschool English books from the second grade and read the rules of capitalization thinking,
"I wish I was still doing easy stuff like this..."
One of the things I read was:
"The first word in all line of poetry should be capitalized." And that made me remember what scarred me for life about capitalization...It happened six and a half years ago...
In first grade, we had a loud and irritable teacher named Mrs. Davis. We called her the Jersey Devil, for that's a legend of this state. We were six year olds when we came us with this too... Our old kindergarten teacher was quiet and nice (and VERY short) so it was big change...Here's the story...
One day, we were reviewing capitalization...she asked,
"What's the one word that's always capitalized?"
Nobody knew it was "I". She asked a few us, including me, and nobody knew. She asked the fat kid, who I think had/has ADD since he couldn't remember to sharpen his pencils ever and asked why they stopped writing regularly, and when he said he didn't know she freaked.
I was a nice, innocent, little thing back then...I wasn't the one who came up with the Jersey Devil stuff either! Alright, I couldn't have been that innocent if I'm such a bad-ass now... Anyway, she freaked out and started yelling sentences that had "I" in them.
I, as a timid little six-year-old, was afraid and have the moment branded into my memory. I can still see her chins giggle as she yelled...I even remember what clothes I was wearing. Man, do I ever feel sorry for her two (maybe three?) daughters! Poor things...
Well, that's the story of how I became a capitalization freak!
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Mean teacher... My homeroom teacher right now is sort of like that. HEh. Chins giggle... Wow you have really accurate memory. You even remember the clothes you were wearing.
Ouch. Evil teachers are just well... evil, stupid, and overall mouse-brained! I should know, my 3rd grade teacher was so mean! She would yell at us for not writing our cursive letters right the first time. Ugh... But you're right, capitalization problems are annoying. Great story!
Erbarely!
Megan C.
What a dumb teacher! Doesn't she know that there millions, nay billions, of words that are always capitalized? All the people and places that existed! Not even real people and places, either. Made up ones, too! That number probably exceeds billions. Probably trillions! Actually, I think that number may be infinite. I mean, think! You can always make up a place or name in your mind. I just made up one: Trilinon!
Good for you. I think the lack of capitalization is one thing that bugs me most about the writings of young people. Sometimes the words can be beautiful, but without proper punctuation and capitals, it's just difficult to read.
And...I think you'll be a fine writer. You've already mastered the use of ellipses - that most writers overuse. Myself included.
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