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What is this “aesthetic” where you don’t capitalize sentences but still follow every other grammar rule?

• c22 4y ago
  it seems all right to me. why do we force new users of our language to learn an entirely redundant set of glyphs?
  • AnimalMuppet 4y ago
    If you eliminate all the redundancy, you binary encode it and then LZW compress it. Nobody wants to read that. More seriously, some redundancy helps with some data corruption. We don't need capital letters; we could let the punctuation show us where the sentence ends. On the other hand, we don't need the punctuation, either; we could let the capital letters show us where the next sentence starts. But having both lets us figure out things like "did the author insert a period there as a typo, or is that really the end of the sentence?"
  • entropy47 4y ago
    I found this much harder to read than the average blog post (the "I mean" was where I realized I was in for a stream-of-consciousness post). You can get away without paragraphs too, but I don't think "you can parse a language without it" makes a thing redundant. I get it for comments or social media statuses, but if you're writing long form text you want somebody over 30 to read, reaching over to the shift key is probably worth it. This was a good read but it was annoying, like a nice book transcribed into Comic Sans.
    • roxgib 4y ago
      Agreed, it's well established that deviating for the normal rules of grammar makes writing harder to read. Breaking it in a deliberate fashion can work, but I don't think this is that. A lot of language is technically redundant but we do it because it aids in comprehension and readability.
  • kerpotgh 4y ago
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• mouse_ 4y ago
  tumblr.
• dQw4w9WgXcQ 4y ago
  super casual, laid back. not really into conflict, just good vibes. somewhat popular because they're disarming and can be empathetic - sometimes faked empathy though by the lowercase vibe they are trying to wear as a social mask. secretly a real people-pleaser and wants to be liked but tries hard not to show it. has those moments at parties where they are really doing well socially, but also a bit of an introvert who has an artistic bent. usually that kind of person. also occasionally can be a younger college woman who tries to act super chill and friendly with everyone, may behave somewhat like a bro she likes and often thinks that doing fratty things is cool. like omg can u believe we pounded so much tequila last night and we blacked out at sig epi chi and audrey fell into a bush while i peed on the side of the house. totally ripped my skirt in half, im such a hot mess. like guys are we going to the delta chi social tonight, i literally cant stand chad but still think i might hookup w him again basically that aesthetic.
  • missedthecue 4y ago
    I saw someone on the bus trying to write that way on their phone and they were fighting autocorrect the whole time. Made me laugh because you're right, he was going for the laid back vibe and it was actually more difficult for him than typing normally.
• lelanthran 4y ago
  > What is this “aesthetic” where you don’t capitalize sentences but still follow every other grammar rule? People with little talent and unimportant messages want to write like Alan Paton[1]. The point they miss is that it worked for Alan Paton because he had a lot of talent and very important messages. I've seen talentless hacks do something similar, copying the narrative quality of Doctor Manhatten from the Watchmen novel, not realising that it worked for him because he was a being who lived outside of time, but it just makes them look stupid. [1] "Cry, The Beloved Country", which is one of the more powerful books I've read in my life thus far, next to 1984 and similar. People who virtue signal (you know who you are) should read this; the struggle was real, human grief knows no race boundaries.