Capital "G"


I am not completely sure as to why, but I write my name DouG, with a capital "G".  Unfortunately there is really no hidden meaning or funny story as to why I do that, I just do.  I guess my artistic side likes the appearance of the negative space or maybe I just feel more balanced?!?  I really don't know, but in any case, at my current employer, they are going to get me a jacket with my name on it.  When making the request for the capital "G", I received a refusal to supply me with my request without justification.  I immediately put my creativity to use (notice I didn't say "good use"), and presented this letter the following day........(hopefully I will be able to update a picture of me proudly wearing my jacket in the near future).

Subject: Justification for my capital “G” 

So, my “I just want one” explanation of why I wanted a capital “G” for my nametag wasn’t good enough, huh?  Fair enough.  There really isn’t a story or a meaning behind it, but for the sake of defending my request, I came to a rational justification of why you should appease my simpleminded babble.

We live in a world in which people go out of their way to find things to be offense, even taking the simplest of comments or the most innocent of gestures out of context, thus construing and contorting them into something that they are not.  With this in mind, I wish to spell my name with a capital “G” as to not offend lesdyxic…..er….ah…I mean dyslexic perfectionistic egotist.  Perhaps further explanation would be warranted.

First, to define an egotist as someone that is self centered, and really doesn’t concentrate on “you”.  Fair assessment?  So, with that assumption, when they are reading a word, they might go as far as to disregard the letter “u” (since it’s pronounced the same as “you”).  Now, had a dyslexic person looked at my nametag, they would have read it to be “gouD”, but as I just established, a egotist dyslexic person would disregard the “u” and read it as “goD”.  Now, a perfectionist would understand that the word “God” is always suppose to be capitalized, thus they would be greatly perturbed by the typo, and could possibly go as far as to be offended depending on the religious beliefs.  So, as not to offend dyslexic perfectionistic egotist, it is imperative that I capitalize the “G” when spelling my name.

DouG 

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” –Albert Einstein