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Is there some weird chic thing where you intentionally don’t use capital letters? What is up with that behaviour? Is it some cute attempt at saying “an AI didn

Is there some weird chic thing where you intentionally don’t use capital letters? What is up with that behaviour? Is it some cute attempt at saying “an AI didn’t write this”?

tom_ 3y ago
Some people just don't like to press shift. I moaned at one of my friends about this, years ago, and I got a 1-word reply that really stuck in my mind: > thomas. And there is indeed no law against not pressing shift.
Michelangelo11 3y ago
> Is there some weird chic thing where you intentionally don’t use capital letters? What is up with that ridiculous behaviour? I was wondering the same thing. Always, on purpose, avoiding starting sentences with capital letters. Both this guy and Sam Altman. What ... why ... ?
- capableweb 3y ago
  So you know that they are rule and norm breakers, no rule too tiny to be broken and skipped in the name of productivity/health/insert-hot-thing-of-the-day
  - Michelangelo11 3y ago
    That's it. Disruption as a way of life. True entrepreneur mindset. Yeahhhh.
- ryandrake 3y ago
  I've seen this from a couple of VP/SVP level execs at companies I've worked. My pet theory is it's some kind of weird "My time is too important to even use the shift key" signal. They probably add up the cumulative amount of time they would spend using the shift key and multiply by their compensation and realize they could buy another car if they just optimized that useless key out of their lives.
  - zamfi 3y ago
    at this point, it's work to keep autocorrect from fixing this.
    - malwarebytess 3y ago
      Plenty of people don't use autocorrect.
      - zamfi 3y ago
        Sure — my point is only that by and large it’s on by default, and you have to actively turn it off (or de-correct manually).
robswc 3y ago
Yea, I'm not a fan. I'm not grammar nazi but it makes reading a bit unpleasant.
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airstrike 3y ago
personally, it comes from spending too much time on IRC back in the day and now thinking it's normal not to capitalize ;-) a bit of a stylistic choice but over time I've become accustomed to capitalizing a bit more often and it's become sort of random. I actually have auto-capitalization turned off on my phone
- Waterluvian 3y ago
  Oh that’s an interesting source I haven’t considered. It is rather stylistic.
liuliu 3y ago
Maybe auto-correction is off because you need to type too much acroynms and jargons and auto-correction is annoying?
- welpo 3y ago
  Unlikely. They are separate settings both on iOS and Android.
zamfi 3y ago
a habit of a certain era of internet kids.
stickfigure 3y ago
You can thank this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings
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Is there some weird chic thing where you intentionally don’t use capital letters? What is up with that behaviour? Is it some cute attempt at saying “an AI didn’t write this”?

tom_ 3y ago

Some people just don't like to press shift. I moaned at one of my friends about this, years ago, and I got a 1-word reply that really stuck in my mind: > thomas. And there is indeed no law against not pressing shift.

Michelangelo11 3y ago

> Is there some weird chic thing where you intentionally don’t use capital letters? What is up with that ridiculous behaviour? I was wondering the same thing. Always, on purpose, avoiding starting sentences with capital letters. Both this guy and Sam Altman. What ... why ... ?

capableweb 3y ago
So you know that they are rule and norm breakers, no rule too tiny to be broken and skipped in the name of productivity/health/insert-hot-thing-of-the-day
- Michelangelo11 3y ago
  That's it. Disruption as a way of life. True entrepreneur mindset. Yeahhhh.
ryandrake 3y ago
I've seen this from a couple of VP/SVP level execs at companies I've worked. My pet theory is it's some kind of weird "My time is too important to even use the shift key" signal. They probably add up the cumulative amount of time they would spend using the shift key and multiply by their compensation and realize they could buy another car if they just optimized that useless key out of their lives.
- zamfi 3y ago
  at this point, it's work to keep autocorrect from fixing this.
  - malwarebytess 3y ago
    Plenty of people don't use autocorrect.
    - zamfi 3y ago
      Sure — my point is only that by and large it’s on by default, and you have to actively turn it off (or de-correct manually).

robswc 3y ago

Yea, I'm not a fan. I'm not grammar nazi but it makes reading a bit unpleasant.

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airstrike 3y ago

personally, it comes from spending too much time on IRC back in the day and now thinking it's normal not to capitalize ;-) a bit of a stylistic choice but over time I've become accustomed to capitalizing a bit more often and it's become sort of random. I actually have auto-capitalization turned off on my phone

Waterluvian 3y ago
Oh that’s an interesting source I haven’t considered. It is rather stylistic.

liuliu 3y ago

Maybe auto-correction is off because you need to type too much acroynms and jargons and auto-correction is annoying?

welpo 3y ago
Unlikely. They are separate settings both on iOS and Android.

zamfi 3y ago

a habit of a certain era of internet kids.

stickfigure 3y ago

You can thank this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings

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