"(no capital letters, speed has a price :D)" purely on this point, having two cases does seem quite unnecessary and burdensome you have to learn the alphabet

"(no capital letters, speed has a price :D)" purely on this point, having two cases does seem quite unnecessary and burdensome you have to learn the alphabet twice, for one thing and in fact, much punctuation is also superfluous just put each 'thought' on it's own line, for example no need for fancy untypeable punctuation like the recently popular —