Original Posted By: Bill Church
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Re: Feul TnakStudies have shown that we do a much more efficient job reading lower case lettersTHAN ALL CAPS for extended reading. All Caps can be clearer if RESTRICTEDto short segments. nOTE hOW tHE nEXT tO sECTIONS rEAD:WE CULOD SRACBMLE THE WRODS IN WTEHAVER FORM WE WSIH. AS LNOG AS WE AWLYAS MIATIANNTHE ODRER OF THE FRIST AND LSAT LTTEER THE TEXT WLIL SLTIL MKAE SNESE.We culod sracbmle the wrods in wtehaver form we wsih. As lnog as we awlyas miatiannthe odrer of the frist and lsat ltteer the txet wlil sltil mkae snese.with lower case letters we are able to look through the words and pick out theletters that stick up. We actually can read text that is quite scrambled as longas all the letters are there. ARMY ORDERS are still written in all caps. The root reason was to simplificatefor the teletype. A much simpler system was required if you only had 26 letters(one case) plus 10 numbers. With both cases it was 52 letters plus 10 characters.No need to do it that way but the Army Standard is still to write majorOrders in ALL CAPS. Hard to read. I would write your operations manual with both and do your placards in ALL CAPS.BLUE SKIESsteve dBlue Skies,----- Original Message -----