Why two sets? (updated)

Jr. was having some fun with an english workbook she got as a gift. This is now our usual routine in the evenings.

Today she had to answer a question which was :

_______ went to swim.

the three choices were

Him
I
i

She figured out that Him was wrong as soon as she read that option.

Then she looked at me and asked me a very profound question.

"Daddy, why do we need two set of letters with all this uppercase and lowercase stuff? Why can't we have just all uppercase or all lowercase?"

I really do not have an answer for that one! Why? Why?

Now, I have a question for my parents!

Was I smart or lazy enough to ask that question when I was learning english? and if I did, were you proud of me?

Why do we need two sets of letters people? Answer me!

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Anon commenter... Just a thought!

THIS IS SHOUTING

THIS IS NOT SHOUTING

i rest my case

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now I have another question.. Does Tamizh have ! in the alphabet, punctuation.. I have to go and read about the history of punctuation marks. Tonight's homework..

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Viva Microsoft-eeee!

The BIL gave me a gift.. well two gifts actually!

He got me a Zune player from the Microsoft store!

It has like 30 GB, plays music, videos, pictures, has a built in radio!

He also gave me more than 1900 songs including all the Tamizh and Hindi oldies from his CD collection!

Ooo laa laa...

Have been playing with the Zune.. so no time to blog. Will complete my unfinished post once I am all set with the player.

In other news, here is an evening conversation:

Me: do you know any songs?
Little one : Yesh!
Me : sing a song for me
Little one : tee tee tee joti joti joti
Me : !!!!!!!!!!!!

I was expecting something more along the lines of twinkile twinkle or baa baa black sheep!! Should have seen this coming..

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Cheezza anyone?

Why use two words when one is enough?

The little one is making the family proud by being furgal, at least with words. The rest of the family, especially daddy is very near an F grade on the subject.

Today, she pointed to the Pizza at the birthday table and said:

"Give me Cheezza!"

I guess Cheese Pizza is Chezza. Do not know if she was trying to say "cheese Pizza" and combined the words. Still Cheezza sounds cool!

Daddy as usual thought, he should stake a claim to the little ones discovery only to find that Cheezza is actually a different dish! It is a pizza with the crust made of deepfried cheese!!! Interesting..

Then I thought, what about Vegizza? and the answer was, No! Someone came up with that one in 2005 as an answer to an english language Quiz!!!

It was intersting to note that both these words had only 1 or 2 google hits.

Someday, the little one will come up with a word that has no hits on Google. I am almost sure...

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