Memorized the Sesame Street song about something that gets so little love around here: The Capital "I":
Here's the classic original.
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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!!!
Welcome to "Why a Tittle?"
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".
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".
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4 comments:
OH BOB, YOU POOR, POOR MAN. DO YOU STiLL REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT WE NEED TO iNDOCTRiNATE OUR YOUNG FROM iNFANCY SO THEY ARE PREPARED TO SURViVE THiS iNSANE UNiVERSE?
HAVE YOU NO AWARENESS OF HOW COMPANiES MAKE THEiR BiG DECiSions ABOUT THEiR USE OF UPPER VS. LOWERCASE 'i'? iN FACT, ONE HAS EVEN GONE TO THE EXTREME OF DECLARiNG A NATiONAL LOWERCASE 'i' DAY??? http://visuallounge.techsmith.com/2008/12/celebrate_lowercase_i_day.html
SHALL i SPELL P*TY WITH AN UPPER OR LOWERCASE 'i', DEAR?
SADLY, iT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN CUT OFF:
http://visuallounge.techsmith.com/2008/12/celebrate_lowercase_i_day.html
http://visuallounge.techsmith.
com/2008/12/celebrate_lowercase_
i_day.html
Is it a sign of even deeper sickness that I'd seen that link and video already.
Oh, and I'm a Techsmith/SnagIt customer, and have been for years.
Yes, they are out to get me, dear...
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