A blog that discusses the improper use of lowercase "i"s in words that are otherwise all caps. Which is NOT silly! It's NOT!!!
Friday, August 31, 2007
Literacy Campaign
EUREKA!!!! I finally get why this happens! We teach our kids to do it as part of their summer reading program. Maybe it's an intimidation thing. Maybe an uppercase "I" in and around those other uppercase letters would scare little kids.
Not just a sign, but an entire campaign using this as the logo. It's one thing to try to be artsy and fun, but the bar needs to be higher when it's part of a library/reading campaign...
For some years now I've had a mild obsession with bad lettering on signs. It has always amazed me that (probable) high school and college graduates are still missing skills that they should have mastered by the end of the third grade. I had originally thought that I'd build a site called www.thedeclineofwesterncivilization.com, and use bad signs as proof. But I'm lazy and this is easier.
This blog is dedicated to documenting the common practice of dotting "i"s incorrectly on signs made up of mostly or all uppercase letters. If I'm successful, I'll end up with a nice bookend blog to the wonderful lOWERCASE l blog -- an idea that I wish I had come up with the first time I saw a MUlCH AND lOAM outside the garden center a few years back...
And for those of you who don't "get" the title, it's a pun on the name Y.A. Tittle, a former longtime NFL quarterback for the 49ers and Giants. A tittle is the dot on top of a lowercase "i".
3 comments:
If I saw that sign in person, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to control the urge to grab a pen and turn that "i" into an "I."
Not just a sign, but an entire campaign using this as the logo. It's one thing to try to be artsy and fun, but the bar needs to be higher when it's part of a library/reading campaign...
How frightening. What next?
Learnin' You to REaD
BooKs is Fun
Obviously, the illiteracy goes back two generations--not only the target audience of kids, but the adult(s) who came up with this sign.
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