Well the government did ask for ideas for saving money. Here's one that will literally save billions
stop civil servants using capital letters
millions of pounds could be saved by improving the efficiency of the public sector by banning capital letters from government offices. the saved time and money from not pressing the shift key not to mention extra energy consumption from pixels means that by my calculations the government could increase its efficiency by 2%. that may not sound a lot but 2% of 700 billion pounds is 14 billion pounds which is 10% of the deficit.
How the idea could be implemented
remove the shift key and caps lock from all government keyboards and have a fine system where anyone found using capital letters in writing or print will lose £10 of their pay.
Well err.. as I did say the Government asked for this and they got it!
3 comments:
CAPITAL LETTERS ARE JUST UNACCEPTABLE BUT THEY DO MAKE THE PRINT LARGER TO READ.
Jams
At work we do not use capitalized letters because it appears that you are shouting at the reader. In one allegedly tragic case a person supposedly attempted to commit suicide after a person capitalized that he failed his DNA test and was not the father of his children. We try to never use the word failed. We may only state the evidence failed to establish X.
Many times we have to rewrite correspondence because we made things too bland.
Ah but that means fewer lines per page and thuse more paper... Capitals are RUINING OUR ECONOMY!
Joking aside you do have to be so careful how to phrase things. Better to be bland than offensive
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