Comments on: Fun With Signs: The Lowercase L

By: karen

karen — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:35:42 +0000

I mix my letters up because i don’t think when i’m writing, i only notice it later

By: sara

sara — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:26:46 +0000

Uuuuurrrghhh!!!!!!!!

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:10:43 +0000

Great. I’ll be sure not to let the door Siam. Thanks for the warning. :)

By: TomH

TomH — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:46:07 +0000

Great – now I’LL be watching for this all week. Thanks.

MY personal peeve is when the decimal point is used unnecessarily in a price. For example, a sign I’ve seen read, “Cookies: .50c or 3 for $1.”

They never would sell me just two for a penny…

By: dw

dw — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:39:34 +0000

I agree with ella, the lowercase l’s just look better.

By: ella blue

ella blue — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:36:18 +0000

The upper case L is unattractive when writing print. So is the E. Plus, the uppercase E takes more strokes to write when you are in a hurry than lowercase e. But, I’m one of those people that will combine script with print letters. Which, I believe, means I’m a psycho maniac. It’s all this kind of nitpicking in society that makes me want to hide indoors.

By: nutmeag

nutmeag — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:18:57 +0000

I find myself using a lowercase “L” in an otherwise capitalized sentence, but it’s always by accident and I often correct the mistake. I’m not sure why I do this . . . too lazy to finish it off, I guess. Or perhaps I’m just trying to save space–a lowercase takes up much less room than the capital does.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:54:04 +0000

I’ve been noticing these type of signs for as long as I can remember. I feel so much better knowing I’m not the only one who gets her fur rubbed the wrong way with this. Has anyone (probably everyone) read “Eats Shoots and Leaves”? Where’s my Sharpie?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:50:20 +0000

I’ll occasionally mix a lowercase “L” in with mixed upper-case letters when I’m obliged to give my email address for some mailing list or contact database I’d ultimately rather not join. I figure it saves me a bit of spam, and if the person ever asks why his or her emails keep bouncing back, I can point at the address I gave them and say, “that’s an L, not an I, you freaking idiot.” It’s win-win for me.

By: Janel

Janel — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:35:38 +0000

My choir director does this all the time. He will do it with other letters too though; just randomly throughout whatever he’s writing there will be upper and lower case letters. It makes no sense at all.