caps off

 i have a little finger that plays tricks on me and one of them is the shift key that it often mistakes for the caps lock key - then i am in trouble - for this, and this only blog, i fully intend to use no capitals - i will go with punctuation bits, however, because, really, one cannot do without them - for some odd reason, whomever planned how the english language should be presented, seems to have complicated it unreasonably - i see little about capital letters in most cases, that make them necessary for understanding - someone told me that capitalizing certain words meant that you respected the named individual, time, place or structure and while that makes sense, especially with the word, God - you don't mess around with that word because there are so many names for God in every single religion, even those who say they don't believe in it when not believing is believing - and who wants to mess around with God - not i or is it me - so far this is going very well and my little finger is sulking down there in the left hand corner of my world - back to the subject, language, well, the english language - i am desperately trying to avoid the red underlining and blue grammatical suggestions that colour my page at this time - writing these days is practiced by many fools who can't spell, know very little about usage or writing novels, and usually always publish their own books - let's face it, they have to because they are so bad no one would deign to spend a loon on them -  the word books, i use lightly because there are far too many on line "authors" who dream of being that horror writer we all know that doesn't live like a hollywood star but could  which i respect - i came across a so-called book today on-line, with a cover title very small, but the author's name blazing over fifty percent of it with a bastardized spelling of two of the most famous authors in the fiction field - now who does he think he's kidding - right! - himself, period - no sale - but back to language and why it should change or ought to - the matter of the reader's responsibility for example - we have to learn how to contextualize more - if we gave up capital letters that don't make sense, perhaps readers would pick up their responsibility as it should be - only lazy readers need to be directed to understand what they are eyeing by plopping in capitals - who doesn't get it that new york isn't pudding? or the big apple isn't new york? - in fact, if we stopped making a capital i for ourselves it would not only save our little fingers, but also keep us awake and to me, a small i is cuter than a capital one anyway - another pleasant off-shoot of losing capitals is that we might have to stretch our minds a bit more if, rarely, it was necessary to fathom our brains beyond capital letters or for authors to explain when a capital or not, might cause minor confusion as to meaning - most of us "get it" as they say - i am an avid crossword puzzle fan and am overjoyed when i get it all right - i want to shout it to the moon and never think that i am doing it all in capitals - oopsy.