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Leif Roar Moldskred wrote:
> Have you never encountered conventions such as this:
> SMITH, JOHN - English explorer and principal founder of the first
> permanent English settlement in North America at JAMESTOWN (q.v.)

Certainly, demonstrating exactly what I said. In this context,
upper case tells me that the words are index terms, for which
more information is available.

> Regarding your letter of 20th March, I must express my TOTAL
> disagreement with ...

And here too. What are you trying to show? I said that the
reader will use case to assign alternate meanings to words.
Here case is used for emphasis.

> And, of course, since English is not just a written language, but also
> a spoken one, English quite simply _can not_ be case sensitive.

This might be a better argument if English did not have homonyms!
     "He read the red book."
     "Don't underestimate the might of the mite."