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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> A woman's name.
> A programming language.
> The Americans with Disabilities Act.
> The American Dental Association.
> An Assistant District Attorney.
> ...
> 
> The reader of English, upon an encountering a word
> which is all lower-case, capitalized, or all upper-case
> will assign different provisional meanings to the word
> based on that, even if he doesn't know what the word means.


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.)

or this:

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

And, of course, since English is not just a written language, but also
a spoken one, English quite simply _can not_ be case sensitive. The
use of case in English is merely a convention to ease reading - it
never changes the meaning of the message.

-- 
Leif Roar Moldskred