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can we just say no to capital letters? (or lowercase?) do capital letters have a good enough usage case to justify their continued existence?
by justaguy37 5y ago
can we just say no to capital letters? (or lowercase?)
do capital letters have a good enough usage case to justify their continued existence?
- colejohnson66 5y agoYou are free to stop using capital letters, but good luck getting everyone to go along. Capitals have been around for centuries (they’re older than the printing press) and aren’t going anywhere.
- bmn__ 5y agoThe lower-case letters in Greek/Latin/Cyrillic are the new additions, initially we only had what is now called upper-case.
- Lammy 5y agoFun fact: The Apple Ⅱ and Ⅱ+ originally only did upper-case, and it was very popular to add a Shift Key / lower-case mod via one of the gamepad buttons: https://web.archive.org/web/20010212094858/http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2KBPADJS.html#001 https://web.archive.org/web/20010212094858/http://home.swbel...