Did the rules on capitalization change when I wasn't looking?

[onefixedstar]

I've been encouraging my students to email me this term, and a surprising number of them are using what can only be described as random capitalization, when they can manage to find the shift key at all. I know that many people perceive email as a relatively informal style of communication, but really, when a student is emailing someone who has the power to assign him or her marks, don't you think it might occur to the student that it might be a good idea to capitalize the name of said person?

Comments

[a-just-society.livejournal.com]

Your students actually use your name? You must be special. My emails from students have been known to simply start with "Hey,"

[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's the law degree talking, but I feel the strange urge to defend your srudents.

I capitalise poorly. In part it's because I type like a frothing tentacled demon for whom english is a poorly grasped third language. But then I am also dyspraxic (God only knows how you spell it) so maybe some of your students also have that problem.

And the rest? Well it's hard being a student, all that drinking, studying, drinking, cavorting, drinking...