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before phone keyboards did it for you, caps required the shift key, which was utterly inefficient for real-time online discourse. and then those us who omitted

by modzu 3y ago

before phone keyboards did it for you, caps required the shift key, which was utterly inefficient for real-time online discourse. and then those us who omitted the caps realized something: we dont need em

pikelet 3y ago
'Utterly inefficient' seems a bit hyperbolic.
- modzu 3y ago
  aaah such a methodical and painstaking expression, writing with caps and quotes, period and all.. suspects shields one from hyperbole :D
  - airstrike 3y ago
    interestingly, I also type ellipses as ".." because the third dot is irrelevant!
    - Izkata 3y ago
      I use number of dots to indicate length of the pause. A transcription of how I would have said it aloud. I think my maximum is 4.
      - asadm 3y ago
        i do that too!
  - LeafItAlone 3y ago
    > aaah such a methodical and painstaking expression, writing with caps and quotes, period and all.. suspects shields one from hyperbole :D Funny that you got through that without the shift key, only to reach for it as the final character to use an emoticon.
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rootusrootus 3y ago
Way before phone keyboards even existed, we learned touch typing and thus can create grammatically correct sentences with proper punctuation every bit as fast as someone who is skipping those niceties. You're just putting lipstick on lazy. ;-)
croes 3y ago
Would you help your Uncle Jack off a horse without uppercase letters?
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