On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 02 October 2014, Chris Murphy sent:
> Children learning languages that use roman characters learn simple
> capital block letters first. Then lower case.

Depends on what country you're in.  In Australia, and England (I think),
you learn the lower case letters first.  You learn the sounds of each
letter, and you can figure out how to pronounce a word.  You can't do
that from the sounds of the capital letters.

e.g. wall, wuh-a-ull.... wall
     WALL, double-you ay el el, unpronounceable

Um...
the sound of a capital letter is exactly the same as a lowercase letter.

eg.

WALL, WUH-A-ULL ... WALL
wall, double-you, ay, el, ell, unpronounceable.