I Call "Bullshit" on Grammar

I was going to write a post about trees (again) but I'll get to that in a minute. It just dawned on me that upper case letters are stupid. Why do we need to uppercase certain letters when there is no real distinction between them and their diminutive counterparts? I think it would have been wiser to just do something like draw a line under a lowercase letter if you really want to make it different for no reason. Some of them aren't even similar at all! How do you get "G" from "g". I call 'bullshit' on grammar! Now that I think of it, maybe uppercase is the right one and lowercase are the superfluous additions. All the uppercase letters are the same size but the lowercase are all over the board with height and some of them drop below the line. That is one crazy set of characters. I guess all uppercase letters doesn't really lend itself to cursive either. Cursive used to piss me off but then I realized that I could cheat with cursive. I have terrible penmanship to begin with. I just don't care and now I have a 2 inch plate on my index finger's metacarpul so I have an excuse to be sloppy. But cursive you can get away with just scribbling a few jagged lines and calling it whatever you want. I think cursive will only last 10 more years. Penmanship as well. Nobody is going to write anything once everyone has laptops and stuff. Who needs it? I know what the damn letters look like so why does anyone care if I can manually write them like a frickin scribe. Scribes went the way of the dinosaur like a hundred years ago when everyone learned how to write and nobody even blinked an eye. Writing could be a difficult transition though. I think the reason why we won't ever give up hard-copy writing has something to do with magnetism. A lot of data is stored in computers and stuff which is all binary in its most basic form. I don't know the exact details, but I think that harddrives store this data magnetically on a disk. Well, the earth has a magnetic 'sheild' or something (I should probably look this up to double check) that is emitted from the poles due to a swirling mass of iron in the earth's core. Well, what happens if something goes haywire and the earth gets subjected to some kind of super magnetic field from like a solar flare or something and the sheild can't block it all. Then all the 001101001011101100100101010100 gets turned into 0000000000000000000000000000. All that stuff that we worked so hard to compile gets erased. Consider the Earth formatted. Then, since everyone forgot how to write they'll be lookin' for scribes and guess what!?! Scribes will charge huge amounts of money for their services and then reinvest that money into rubber companies until they own the majority of shares, at which time they will close down the rubber factories so that nobody can buy erasers anymore and then, following this progression to its natural conclusion, people get really frustrated with crossing everything out because its so messy and that will be the end of amateur penmanship...and the reinvention of the professional scribe!
lisakaye on
So then maybe writing well isn't such a bad idea, that way when this horrible magnetic disaster you speak of happens you still have a job!!
Male - 28 years old
NEWINGTON, CT
United States
Bookmark and Share