SHOUTING; emphasis?

[Baker, John]

        it's possible that, in these degenerate days, a few people may not recognize the references to archy and mehitabel.  archy was a vers libre poet, reincarnated as a cockroach living in the office of newspaper columnist don marquis.  archy couldn't operate the shift key, so all of his poems were in lower case.  mehitabel was a cat, the reincarnation of cleopatra and archy's best friend.  we have a cat named mehitabel, but she hasn't shown any fondness for cockroaches as yet, which I suppose is just as well.  archy's poetry was collected in _archy and mehitabel_ and later books.

john baker


-----Original Message-----
From: Baker, John
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:17 PM
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Subject: Re: SHOUTING; emphasis?


        that's archy.  mehitabel couldn't type.

-----Original Message-----
From: Laurence Horn [mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:13 PM
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Subject: Re: SHOUTING; emphasis?


At 1:55 PM -0400 9/11/02, Steve Kl. wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Duane Campbell wrote:
>
>>  It is surprisingly difficult for me to type this without hitting commas,
>>  periods, dashes, and the shift key.  I had to backspace (pardon the
>>  verbalization) several times.
>
>for what it's worth, it's very easy for me to type without caps, and i'd
>do it far more often if people didn't look askance at lower case i's and
>whatnot. in fact, i often have to go back after typing and add a bunch of
>caps.
>
>arnold zwicky is my typographical hero.
>
>--steve

and mehitabel, for both of you