There have been rules for how to write that some of us have accepted, and others have challenged.

When I was younger I admired ee cummings poetry, but now think his craftsmanlike autobiography the Enormous Room, a greater work.

In the meantime the way he wrote without capitals, or punctuation, or even sensible spacings between the lines, seems the norm.

Even many great thinkers on CR4 are prone to using telegraphic letters like ROFLO, or LOL, or BTW.

In business communications I get emails that start out with "Hey".

When did it become unseemly to start even an email with, Dear Bill,?

When I was younger I knew when I was breaking a rule, but now that everybody does it all the time, I get confused, and feel like I'm breaking the rules when I write properly.