Re: Using capital letters

["Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM>]

Have them read Ben Franklin's autobiography. That'll cure them of caps!

Mike Huber
mike -dot- huber -at- software -dot- rockwell -dot- com

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Sella Rush [SMTP:SellaR -at- APPTECHSYS -dot- COM]
>Sent:  Friday, August 08, 1997 3:58 PM
>To:    TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject:       Re: Using capital letters
>
>I'd take a bet this new writer has been under the thumb of engineering
>types--probably her whole career so far.  I've worked in both the
>environmental engineering field and in software development, and I'd
>occasionally get SMEs capitalizing for emphasis--in fact have heard the
>phase "key word" used in this context.  When I was first writing--before
>getting any training and with little experience--I might have gone along
>with this if I hadn't had a boss who'd actually heard of a style guide.
>The engineers who did this could be extremely adamant about their caps!
>.

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