hello dotty, why a capital ?

you’ve got it, koendrik doesn't write capitals. “das kapital” by the famous marxbrother is oldfashioned and in my opinion overtaken. a dot closes per definition a line, that gives sentence, in a way that it is clear without any doubt. by starting a new line after the dot with a capital, the poor dot is being questioned and degradated to a second hand. besides, the use of a capital pretends that what will follow is of more importance and that has to be proved. in that case i would rather argue for a closing capital at the end of a line on condition the content is gaining interest. it seems logical, isn't it?

a second argument is the consideration that we think of capital, but not in capitals, unless you consider the whole idea, that must be translated into words, as a capital. in that case i rather prefer the word “caputtales”. loose capitals are “einzelgängers” without any relation with the characters that follows. for sure it is the content that counts and not the character. of course it is also true that certain combinations of characters in a row earns initially a meaningful context after there is made a high-personal print (hp-print) that had left an impression in our brainrind in such a way that we can recollect that item by feeling over that impression with our thoughts (discrimination).

from historical point of view it is understandable that capitals were used. after all not everybody has mastered the art of reading and writing and apparently mostly the more wealthy higher class with “capital”. and to distinguish them from the exclusive talking lower class, the “vox populi” this richdom in script was translated to an eternal reciprocal capital at the beginning of a line. the distinction has to be prompted for discrimination purposes. no wonder that the oldest oilbarons, the richmen from texas, use more capitals in their writing than the average europeans.