Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Pet P'eeve 34

Unnecessary punctuation in proper names.  34a Multiple capital letters in a proper name (last name is ok...I guess). 

Both of these attempts at differentiation or uniqueness are annoying.  There is never a need for a dash or apostrophe in a name.  Is your name a contraction?  Perhaps a compound word?  No....then how about you drop the unnecessaries...plus those names are more difficult to type as they are not intuitive in any way.  La'Shawnda?  Really? I am a decent typist and despise having to slow down because a name has extras.....ok this post is running out of st'Eam.

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