Pet peeve of the day: self-capitalization
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010I’m not talking about capitalizing one’s name. That’s just proper grammar.
But when someone refers to themselves as in, “It is My opinion that…” it immediately makes me think that they’re overcompensating. Same feeling I get when people introduce themselves as “Master so-and-so.” Or when listening to a conversation where doms are having a proverbial dick measuring contest, trying to prove that they’re the most twue dom.
What about the flip side of the coin, you ask? When a submissive refers to themselves like, “i think…”? Still sets off some alarms for me, but for some reason not quite so much — I’m not sure why, and I’ll have to think about that.
And I also have no issue with one party or the other using differentiated capitalization when writing to the other — to the contrary, I think that’s a good way for a submissive to show deference.
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