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Originally Posted by Jayne Osborn
Well, actually...
I agree with what Brian said and I'm also sticking up for Kevin for the reasons he gave; and here's yet another reason why:
I joined the U3A (University of the Third Age) when I retired ten years ago; now I, and countless others, are outraged that they've seen fit to do some ''rebranding'' - which includes changing the logo to u3a. The plural of it is rubbish: u3as versus the former, clearer use of U3As.
The rebranding has cost £16K of members' money (OK, not a fortune in the great scheme of things) but why change a perfectly good logo (and we all have many products sporting it, which are now out of date) in the middle of a pandemic? Is that going to attract new members to the organisation? I think not.
Back to the here and now... I, too, find lower case titles irritating, because I just can't see any justification for them, but it's up to each of us to post however we see fit. I also don't like the use of ampersands instead of the word 'and', or 'w/' for the word 'with' ... after all, typing those two extra characters is such a chore, isn't it? 
(Is someone now going to post a comment with ''& and w/'' to deliberately try to annoy me, I wonder?) I'm getting cynical in my old age.
Jayne |
Hi Jayne,
It actually takes longer for me to type & than and. I do it for many reasons. To pay homage to other poets who have influenced me and whose work employed it, to be needlessly idiosyncratic, to reflect my anxiety over how poetry can unite the past and the present, and simply because I find the shape of the & aesthetically pleasing!
I think this conversation (as much as a flame war is quite fun to watch) is a little like polishing the fiddles while Rome burns, there are entire groups of poets (Danez Smith and Jay Bernerd come to mind) which refuse to use any form of capitalisation in all or some parts of their work. The real question for me is not whether its appropriate, but 1) what does this typical break from convention signify about their poetry? and 2) is it justified?
Regards,
Cameron