Why I Hate Capital Letter Research Paper

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The English language has captivated my heart and soul ever since I began to learn how to read and write. Words never fail to amaze me. Sentences always find a way to leave me awestruck. Stories seep into my being and move me in ways that I have never fully understood. However, somewhere in my ever-growing love for English, a deep-seated feeling of hostility has been flowering. Amongst my fondness for commas and my appreciation of subject-verb agreement lies my most tragic secret. I passionately hate capital letters. Although my loathing for a seemingly neutral object appears to be unfounded, I do have reasonable explanations. English has always been my favorite subject, and my favorite part of English has always been punctuation. Commas, periods, and even the exotic semicolons make perfect sense to me. Punctuation expresses everything clearly that a reader would need to know without having to make certain letters of certain words larger. I always believed that if periods, question marks, and exclamation points indicate the end of a sentence, then capitalization to mark the beginning of a sentence is unnecessary. The capitalization of proper names and places is also futile because readers easily recognize these words without the additional emphasis of capitalization. …show more content…

I first realized my animosity towards capital letters when I was in first grade and began to do real class work. I noticed how pretty I thought my handwriting was; however, I only liked the way my handwriting looked if I only wrote in lowercase. Capital letters were these grotesque, evil monsters whose sole purpose was defacing my beautiful handwriting. I slowly grew to hate these uselessly large letters. To me, these letters began to symbolize elitism in a way. The big, bad letters were overpowering the poor, defenseless small

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