Dratted small i!

[aalaan]

Yes, it's me on my hobby-horse again!

I've been around a few other newsgroups and again note that nearly all of
them are infinitely more trivial and/or foul-mouthed and/or full of flamers
than the Word ones.

But the tendency to use small i when a capital should be used is especially
prevalent here. I wonder why, since you'd expect Word users to be more
literate...

Sigh... It's going to be a tense morning. Just got a manuscript to edit that
can't make up its mind whether it is, was or will be...

 

[Tom Willett]

Just because people use Word doesn't make them literate.


| Yes, it's me on my hobby-horse again!
|
| I've been around a few other newsgroups and again note that nearly all of
| them are infinitely more trivial and/or foul-mouthed and/or full of
flamers
| than the Word ones.
|
| But the tendency to use small i when a capital should be used is
especially
| prevalent here. I wonder why, since you'd expect Word users to be more
| literate...
|
| Sigh... It's going to be a tense morning. Just got a manuscript to edit
that
| can't make up its mind whether it is, was or will be...
|
|

 

[Ed]

Just because people post here doesn't make them Word or writing experts.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Actually, it's probably worse among Word users, who are likely so used to
Word capitalizing "i" automatically that they really never use the shift
key.

I mean, don't think I capitalize "i"--I'm just posting with a newsreader
that does it automatically.

DM

 

[TedMi]

On the other hand, I HATE it when Word capitalizes a one-word "i" - it means
"and" in Polish, and (except in all-caps titles) is written in lower-case.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Tools | AutoCorrect, delete it from the list of AutoCorrect entries.

Except, if your language is tagged as Polish, this shouldn't be in the
AutoCorrect list at all, I would think. AutoCorrect is language dependent,
so you should be able to have this on for English and off for Polish.