Pooh style

Do you remember when you read winney the pooh when you were a kid? One thing I really liked about it was that the rules for capital letters were a little more flexible. Specifically, you didn't only capitalize a letter when it started a sentence or when it started a personal noun or some such. Capitals were also used when a person felt strongly about a word, and it helped to emphasize a point. You can still see it in original transcripts of very old documents. And I don't know when we stopped doing this, but it was probably right around the time we could type and use bold or italics or something. I think it's a good idea that got thrown out too soon. There have been many times when I don't want to use an exclamation point or the other font options. I want the classic emphasis- the capital letter.

For example:

Eeyore took his tail out of the water, and swished it from side to side.
"As I expected," he said. "Lost all feeling. Numbed it. That's what it's done. Numbed it. Well, as long as nobody minds, I suppose it's all right."
"Poor old Eeyore. I'll dry it for you," said Christopher Robin, and he took out his handkerchief and rubbed it up.
"Thank you, Christopher Robin. You're the only one who seems to understand about tails. They don't think- that's what's the matter with some of these others. They've no imagination. A tail isn't a tail to them, it's just a Little Bit Extra at the back."
"Never mind, Eeyore," said Christopher Robin, rubbing his hardest. "Is that better?"
"It's feeling more like a tail perhaps. It Belongs again, if you know what I mean."

See? The italics AND the capitalization. It lends it's own unique kind of significance, and I think it's time to bring it back.

Here. You try it.