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i don’t get it, most letters you read will be lowercase, what’s a few more in the grand scheme?
by deadbabe 2y ago
i don’t get it, most letters you read will be lowercase, what’s a few more in the grand scheme?
- DennisP 2y agoAlso, periods are just a small percentage of the characters. Maybe we should skip them.
- collingreen 2y agoAnd spaces! They don't even have any content, just the wasted space! Let's drop those too.
- bookofjoe 2y ago>'The Art of Asking Your Boss For A Raise' by French experimental author Georges Perec is best read aloud. It’s a theatrical piece with dazzling, recursive language that evokes laughter and pity at 'your' plight as you tackle the practical and emotional burden of asking for a much needed (if not deserved) pay increase while in the employ of one of France’s largest companies. >The entirety of the book's 80 pages are one sentence, without punctuation, capitalization or spatial breaks. https://www.michael-maiello.com/logical-loops-with-georges-perec/ https://www.michael-maiello.com/logical-loops-with-georges-p...
- sadeshmukh 2y agoIt speaks volumes that this is the first and probably last time I'll hear this.
- lbrito 2y agoI don't get it, most of the streets don't have traffic lights, what's a few less in the grand scheme? :)
- gedy 2y agoI suspect much of the reaction is that it seems a little pretentious, like a faux optimization along the lines of "Oh I'm soooo busy, no time for caps", etc.
- deadbabe 2y agoIt’s pretty pretentious to say you find a passage of text unpleasant to read just because there aren’t capitalized letters in it.