RE: Can style trump grammar rules?

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

That's SALT...

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Morton
Sent: July-30-14 10:48 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Can style trump grammar rules?

ALL CAPS would also reflect poorly on the author/organization, as in, "WHO
ARE THESE IMBECILES?"   ;<)

>Chris (Asking that my editorial comment be taken with a grain of salt.)



On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Debbie Hemstreet < D_Hemstreet -at- rambam -dot- health -dot- gov -dot- il> wrote:

> Depending on how much text there is, all upper case is VERY difficult 
> to read.
>
>
> Deborah
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
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> BTW, what are your thoughts about all UPPERCASE text? I don't believe 
> there are issues doing it that way.
>
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>
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> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Robert Lauriston 
> <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> wrote:
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> > I can't think of any context where it would be OK not to capitalize 
> > a proper noun. It looks illiterate.
> >
> > That's a typographical convention, not grammar.
> >
>
>
> Thank you all!
> --
> *Shawn Connelly*
> Technical writer
>   <shawn -at- cohodata -dot- com>

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