Funny, I've never seen anyone say that, Charlie.

In fact on the Mudcat the reaction that it gets is more akin to the way people groan when they hear a pun. A jokey sort of criticism, not a fierce attack. Elsewhere I believe it may be different.

The odd thing is that, letter by letter it's easier to read Capitals - look at the way they tell you to print your name in Block Capitals on forms. But somehow we find it easier to read lower case when we are reading extended text. I suppose it's because we are working by recognising the shape of the word rather than piecing together the letters.

For example I find that if you take two bits of text,one in lower case, and one in upper case, and stick a bit of paper so it covers up the upper half of the words, or the lower half, it is quite easy to read the lower case text, but harder to read the upper case.

Does the same kind of thing go on with other ways of writing, like Japanese or Chinese characters, or Indian or Arabic or Hebrew?