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Nice article, but this is hard to read without proper capitalization. My brain uses capitals to scan beginning and ending of text.
by ahoef 2y ago
Nice article, but this is hard to read without proper capitalization. My brain uses capitals to scan beginning and ending of text.
- michaelt 2y agoIf you were using Arc you could add a Boost for "Case: toggle between different capitalization settings - they will apply to all text on the webpage" [1] /s [1] https://resources.arc.net/hc/en-us/articles/19212718608151-Boosts-Customize-Any-Website https://resources.arc.net/hc/en-us/articles/19212718608151-B...
- ramonverse 2y agothis made me laugh. 10/10
- 63stack 2y agoDepending on the version you are using, you might not even need to add it, someone else might just add it for you!
- Aachen 2y agoI was similarly fascinated by the stylistic choices made here. No capitalisation of even any names, no hyphen in a compound adjective, but dots and commas and spaces are deemed necessary, also before "and" where the word clearly acts as separator already. If you look at the waveform of speech, we have no spaces between regular words so, if they want to eliminate unnecessary flourishes... though perhaps (since text largely lacks intonation markers) that makes it too unreadable compared to the other changes. All this is somehow at least as fascinating to me as the vulnerability being described!
- latexr 2y agoIt’s just another dumb social media trend, like tYpiNg LiKe tHiS. Hopefully it too will phase out. Search for “lowercase trend” and you’ll find reports of it going years back, there’s nothing worth being fascinated about. It has seeped into HN as well. Look closely and you’ll notice several commenters type like that.
- Wingy 2y agoI use it to indicate tone. Proper capitalization and punctuation reads with a formal, cold tone. lowercase without caps reads with a warmer, informal tone there’s a Tom Scott Language Files video documenting it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS4X1JfX6_Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS4X1JfX6_Q
- bluehatbrit 2y agoThat's really interesting, I personally don't read those tone differences based on the casing. Neither approach carries different warmth or formality to me at all. I wonder if this is a regional or generational thing?
- latexr 2y ago> I wonder if this is a regional or generational thing? Generational is a good bet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41537994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41537994
- Wingy 2y agoIt's definitely primarily generational. In my experience, capitalization-as-tone is used by many Generation Z people. On the other hand, it is not widely used by older generations, or the younger Generation Alpha.
- PKop 2y ago[flagged]
- Wingy 2y agoIn my experience, that isn't the case. Among people who "have gotten used to" it, using capitalization to indicate the formality and/or tone of your message allows the reader to understand the writer's intention better. I have not observed any correlation between political leanings and this.
- ocean_moist 2y agoYoung people (like me) use lowercaps like that all the time. Around 50% of the young people I know purposefully turn off auto-caps on their phone. Why? I really couldn't say. I think we just like the feel of it. The only reason I type with proper capitalization on HN and my blog is because I know older people read it.
- keybored 2y agoI’m middle-aged. I’ve noticed in the last few months more and more articles with this style. Something I’ve never seen before in blogging or article writing. I usually notice the style at some point but this time I had no idea until this other commenter pointed it out. I guess I am getting acclimatized.
- ac29 2y agoUsing uppercase is for writing (more formal). using lowercase is for chat (less formal)