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it's not to stand out when every person types like this the real reason is it's conversational. it's casual. it removes the gap between the reader and the writ
by forgotoldacc 1y ago
it's not to stand out when every person types like this
the real reason is it's conversational. it's casual. it removes the gap between the reader and the writer
it's how people talk in a chat with their friends
in pretty much every language across the world, writing was always "formal" and lacked the voice of a couple of people having a chat. at some points, writing was even a separate language. east asian people did lots of their correspondence in classical chinese instead of using their own languages. the catholic church hated the idea of people reading the bible in anything but latin
then people chilled out and realized writing how we speak makes it more accessible to everyone. and that's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. novels started taking a more conversational style and some people looked down on that decades ago. now those novels are considered classics, and honestly, i'd attribute half of that to their writing seeming "formal" in retrospect because formal speech today is yesterday's casual speech. now people will revolt against modern writing and think it's below them. in 5 decades people will think this kind of writing is very formal
basically, it doesn't make it harder. it makes it easier. people write how they think and they don't worry about being perfect. and as another commenter said, autoformatting and autocorrecting tools just break shit more than they fix it these days. i can't even type "i have 5 pennies" without my phone correcting it to "I have 5 Pennie's" for some reason.
- alabastervlog 1y ago> it's not to stand out when every person types like this Yeah, OK, I should have written "for social signaling". > basically, it doesn't make it harder. Iassureyou,capitalizationisn'tbecauseit'spretty.Aspectsofwrittenlanguageareoftenthereforverygoodreasonsrelatedtomakingreadinglower-effort.
- forgotoldacc 1y agosaying "the way i write is correct. the way they write is signaling (and that's implicitly wrong)" is not a stance any serious linguist will support. it is an interesting point to take, to claim that lowercase makes reading difficult. 12 year olds have no problem communicating this way and it's very easily understood. same with 30 somethings such as myself. it's not really the responsibility of the youth to limit their expression for the comprehension older people who don't engage with things they consider below them german has even more extreme capitalization and english tossed out those rules. Maybe We could return to Something Similar to the Rules that German uses and That could be helpful for easy Reading? or maybe english speakers just decided those rules were annoying and dropped them and people never missed those rules decades later when we forgot they ever existed
- wiseowise 1y ago>> “it’s not signaling!” > continues to provide reasons why it is signaling
- thunderfork 1y ago[dead]
- forgotoldacc 1y agoit's called communication, yes if the mere act of people using language to communicate frustrates you, that is a personal problem
- wiseowise 1y ago> novels started taking a more conversational style It’s one thing to have conversational style and another to (almost) completely disregard grammar. > i can't even type "i have 5 pennies" without my phone correcting it to "I have 5 Pennie's" for some reason. Let me guess: an iPhone? What a motherf**ing garbage the new iOS keyboard is. Hope whoever worked on it reads this and feels ashamed.
- forgotoldacc 1y agoVerily, it could thus be said that that grammar of thine is incorrect, could it not? Wherefore dost thou decide grammar shan't change? today's right grammar is yesterday's wrong grammar. yesterday's right grammar is today's cringe tryhard writing. languages evolve and tbh most people who demand strict compliance are always the ones who make grammatical mistakes and don't realize it > What a motherf*ing garbage the new iOS keyboard is is not grammatically correct. "a" breaks the sentence
- Yeul 1y agoIt's standing out by doing what everyone else is doing ie being a teenager.
- hooverd 1y agoYes, that is how people type in chat, but a blog post isn't chat. What's fine in one medium can be annoying in the other.