Re: you a hobbyist or a hobbiest

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Kat wrote:
> 
> On 2 Aug 2005, at 21:27, don cole wrote:
> 
> > 
> > posted by: don cole <doncole at pacbell.net>
> > 
> > Evan Marshall wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am hobbier than thou.  I am the hobbiest!
> > > 
> > > Also, there has been entirely too much use of to to mean too.  This has
> > > GOT to
> > > stop!
> > > 
> > While we are at it:
> > 
> > Too many Euphorians are using  the lower case i to mean the first person 
> > 
> > singular I.
> 
> I put forth that uppercase 'i' to mean one's self is improper, and is riding
> the
> coattails of British royalty. No other pronoun is capitalised, except when 
> royalty refers to itself as "We" or "Our", a grandiose display of egoism i can
>
> do without, even if You cannot. But i will consent to spell "i" properly.
> 
> Kat
> 
> 

I don't know much about a link between 'I' and British royalty. All I know is
that capitalizing it makes it much easier on the eyes (!) when reading.

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Too many freaks, not enough circuses.

j.

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