I didn't realize, till reading your post, that capital letters were generally outré. I don't think I can make the change unless I learn that capital letters are maddening to readers here.

walla-walla - just to clear up a possible misconception, what ot refers to here is the practice, common to newbies, of using the Caps Lock key AND RENDERING THEIR POST IN ALL CAPS, WHICH IS CONSIDERED (BY THOSE SAME FOLKS WHO LIKE TO USE TLAs) TO BE SHOUTING!

I guess the convention of using caps for shorthand words (for which there seems to be no goddamned excuse ;) arose from a perceived need to easily distinguish those TLAs from real words. of course, some of them deserve to be hastened along the road to reality; e.g., yart and (some would claim) ayleur.

[aside to musick - the preferred expansion of YART is 'yet another rehashed topic', a fine yet valid distinction]