The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #72244   Message #1242451
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
08-Aug-04 - 07:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: I AM TAPPED INTO THE UNIVERSAL MIND!!
Subject: RE: BS: I AM TAPPED INTO THE UNIVERSAL MIND!!
The idea that English text is easily understandable only in Upper case came from the TeleType™ Machine, which was a cheap machine that could only type in uppercase in early versions. That is why the "shift" character was introduced - to allow the change between upper & lower case for people of normal intelligence.

It is possible to read lower case if the bottom half of the letters is covered.

The reason that some "kOmPuTa nERdS" like to type in Upper Case only instead of mixed upper & lower case is simply lack of physical coordination - that is one less thing their three brain cells need to focus on. Also, people are so confused by the Upper case only that they tend to overlook the level of illiteracy of the posters - lack of spelling accuracy also leads to mental confusion.

And it looks like nobody has yet picked (no doubt because of the Upper case only) that this poster is babbling about NOT 'The Uni-versal Mind' but 'The Un-Versal Mind'.

Clearly that means someone whose mind can only handle prose and not verse.

In that case, I doubt that there is much that we here who can appreciate verse can tell this poster (or the bowels of the Village Idiot that he is channelling) about 'The Versal Mind' that he will understand.

Robin