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Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar

• tencentshill 7mo ago
  That's just how busy people type. You see it a lot if you communicate with upper managers/Csuite regularly. They don't have anyone to impress in private emails, as long as the message is communicated well enough. Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse.
  • moralestapia 7mo ago
    >That's just how busy people type. Lmao. If you think these people are busy, I have news for you.
    • k33n 7mo ago
      Their schedules are usually quite full, but their work doesn't really resemble an average person's.
      • rexpop 7mo ago
        Their schedules are full of leisure, and they can't be arsed to extend even the oz of courteous effort that proper punctuation and grammar require. And their class all recognize it. Possibly it's a class marker. Here, I have to carefully articulate my point because I am desperately trying to convince you not to carry water for the Epstein a class.
        • k33n 7mo ago
          What's your point? That everyone with a lot of wealth lives exactly the same, and is comparable to Epstein? I'm not sure I understand.
          • rexpop 7mo ago
            I mean, yeah. Epstein isn't an abberation, he's typical C-level management. They say "power corrupts", but I think it warps social reality. They're all complicit in the maintainance of a political economy that facilitates the concentration of power in a way that obviates consent.
            • k33n 7mo ago
              That's not an accurate interpretation of reality.
  • triceratops 7mo ago
    > Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse. Ima call bullshit on this. Read the published letters of some historical figures.
    • YinglingHeavy 7mo ago
      I call bullshit on you comparing what was obviously a 2000s+ phenomenon with that of closer to the 1800s.
      • triceratops 7mo ago
        I didn't say 1800s. But also I thought "dictation" meant via a secretary. I guess they meant by voice recognition.
        • overtone1000 7mo ago
          I thought the same. "Dictated but not read."
    • kstrauser 7mo ago
      Survivorship bias. You don't often read the notes where Thomas Jefferson jotted "hey martha riding to ftore be back later love you - Tommy".
      • SoftTalker 7mo ago
        Not so sure. After my father died I came across a box of old letters that were sent between he and his friends, from their early college years. Just personal, casual correspondence, which today would be done with a messaging app or email. Even on the short notes, the structure, spelling, grammar, and even the penmanship is excellent compared to what I see people of the same age doing today.
        • kstrauser 7mo ago
          You had to dedicate so many more resources to that, though. Mailing a letter requires gathering up paper, a pen, an envelope, a stamp, and the person's address, then physically transporting it to a mailbox. It also has a lot of inherent latency, so you have to pack a lot of content into the message because it'll take as much effort into clarifying something you left out on the first message. It's natural to put more care into something you've invested that much baseline effort into. I wouldn't spend nearly as much effort on something ephemeral and instant. For instance, I'm not going to mail my sister in another state a letter saying "ok thanks". I very while might text her that, because 1) she knows exactly what I'm referring to — the thing we were talking about 11 seconds earlier; 2) the customs of messaging mean she doesn't expect or want a wall of text; and 3) if she has any more questions, she can ask them and I'll reply within a minute or two.
  • kstrauser 7mo ago
    I think you're right. I've gone back and read some of my own posts here and winced at what the combination of one-handed typing as I hold onto a handrail on a packed subway plus autocorrect did to what I thought I was saying. I make an effort to use correct spelling and grammar in everything I write that's longer than "ok i'll check when at office", but sometimes it slips past. People still seem to understand what I'm telling them, though, and that's the ultimate goal.
  • TYPE_FASTER 7mo ago
    > Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse. Not sure I agree. I remember e-mails being capitalized and punctuated. It's not so much typos and laziness as much as incomplete thoughts and distraction. Communication as a whole has devolved from an e-mail with a complete thought and some details to a text or chat message without capitalization, punctuation or context. The lack of capitalization and punctuation are just a tell to me that the sender didn't put thought into it. I can't tell you how many times I get a chat message asking a question. I in return ask questions about context, and explain why I'm asking. Then the original sender gets annoyed and provides context. Then I ask more questions. Then the original sender gets quiet. Then I get an invite to a meeting to discuss with a wider audience.
    • b40d-48b2-979e 7mo ago
      Then the original sender gets quiet. Then I get an invite to a meeting to discuss with a wider audience. One of the most infuriating aspects of working in corporate with people where English is not the primary language.
  • mmooss 7mo ago
    > That's just how busy people type. You see it a lot if you communicate with upper managers/Csuite regularly. They don't have anyone to impress in private emails, as long as the message is communicated well enough. There is a time pressure to communicate this way, but I think it's generally a management mistake: Managment includes leadership (usually). Your messages are most of what most people in the organization see of you. You set the high bar; nobody will prioritize quality and attention to detail more than you. And that standard is global IME - you can't very effectively set the example that messages can be sloppy but nothing else. For messages to my social inner circle, for example, I am much less careful - misspellings, abbreviations, etc. For messages to people I manage or lead, I make sure it's perfect every time.
    • bluGill 7mo ago
      Messages from the CEO to the whole company should be carefully checked, and in my experience they seem to be. Spelling/grammar is just a tiny part of check, there is also the whole inclusive language/not offensive to anyone set of checks, and the is this even legal check (perhaps more, that is what I can think of offhand). Messages to a single vice president get much less care.
      • mmooss 7mo ago
        I agree that's the reality, but that VP will follow your example - as a leader, excellence is a performance, a superficial presentation for others, not something to do in private. Also, it's normal to not take your reportees seriously (to some degree).
• rickcarlino 7mo ago
  Nothing says “I’m not AI” like a complete disregard for capitalization and grammar. It’s the ultimate authenticity signal in 2026.
  • bpodgursky 7mo ago
    yes ths is the obvvious reason
  • normanthreep 7mo ago
    Yeah of all my HN and reddit bots those who are prompted to produce bad grammar are the most successful people love talking to them
  • blast 7mo ago
    This trend predates LLMs though.
• mmooss 7mo ago
  This could be read as a condemnation of the text input interfaces we've designed; the users are busy and have little choice. Typing on a phone still is awful: * Very time-consuming, especially for edits/corrections * Lacks functionality (where is undo? the right/left arrow keys?) and other functionality is very poor (mouse/pointer control) * Frustrating! * Consumes attention: I can type on a full keyboard while looking elsewhere - including talking to someone else, though of course all actions suffer. On full keyboards I can type while reading something, to transcribe it, or I can just watch the output. Or just imagine using keyboard-based commands (e.g., Vim) on a smartphone. I've tried alternative screen keyboards and they are a bit better, but it still sucks a lot.
  • everdrive 7mo ago
    >Typing on a phone still is awful I use a bluetooth keyboard for typing on my phone unless I'm out in the world. The number of people who want to have long-form conversations through a phone interface is shocking to me since it's such an awful experience and there are so, so many available alternatives.
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    • bluGill 7mo ago
      I do that a lot. My phone doesn't have spellcheck though - it assumes I'm using a keyboard with autocorrect.
  • mrob 7mo ago
    Doing anything on a phone is a miserable experience, even compared to using a laptop, which is already a lot worse than a desktop with good input devices. IMO it's shocking how many professionals are willing to tolerate such bad interfaces. Compare how picky professional musicians are about the exact components and setups of their instruments. No amount of convenience should lure you into accepting touch screens.
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• ryandrake 7mo ago
  I think a more likely reason, that for some reason, a lot of people don't want to talk about, is that these "Global Elite" aren't really that smart, creative, or articulate. That they've gotten to where they are despite, not because of their communication skills. They're not being "typical unconventional / quirky entrepreneurs." They're simply C students who knew the right people.
  • mmooss 7mo ago
    I generally agree in that I don't see them as particularly brilliant, though I think the average is higher and there is a much higher minimum in some capabilities. And corruption of power is the cause, I suspect. It has poisoned human minds in all places and times; none of us are immune (which is why we design governments that limit individual power). An early lesson in being in charge was that, having nobody to whom I reported, who would see my work and compel me to a high standard, I let things slip. Reportees rarely help you: Often they don't know what you do; when they do see it, they assume it's acceptable - you know what you want, and you set the standard of quality and establish the norms. Generally they have obvious disincentives against disapproving of you, and not just as some political tactic but for personal comfort: days are much more pleasant if your boss is friendly. They will give positive or at least non-negative responses to most substandard boss work. I had to learn to think of it in two ways: First, would I accept this work from someone reporting to me? Second, I internalized the medium- and long-term consequences of substandard leadership and management: once your organization has caught that disease, once that's your reputation, it's very hard to change.
  • RamblingCTO 7mo ago
    or efficiency is more important because you have a high load of people you need to interact with. I was a grammer nazi back in the day but stopped caring because the ROI is minimal and I've got shit to do that's more important. so maybe it's the same for them
    • hshdhdhj4444 7mo ago
      You’re right. Gotta be really incredibly efficient while planning your time on Epstein Island doing Epstein Class things to Epstein girls. These world changing guys clearly have no spare time on their hands at all.
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• redwood 7mo ago
  It's just that this is how everyone types when typing quickly in a text message on their phone. Not much to see here
  • next_xibalba 7mo ago
    Yeah, I think this is the real answer here, not the elaborate social signaling/insider conspiracy takes. These are people who are communicating non-stop and are mostly are boomers who did not grow up on keyboards.
• lab14 7mo ago
  to me, the goal of written text is to put an idea or a concept in the mind of another person. _capitalization_ is one of those "arbitrary rules" that add absolutely nothing to this process unless you're using an obscure acronym. in my mind, it's one of those ancient rules that are completely obsolete in the modern world. its only purpose is to allow others to say "i am better than you because i use this ancient rule that someone came up with a thousand years ago, so i'm smart and you're dumb". being a non-native english speaker, removing capitalization from my writing removed a ton of anxiety when writing text and didn't change at all the landing of my messages or my ideas.
  • bitroughj 7mo ago
    Wong
  • redwood 7mo ago
    My personal take is that it's easier for me to read your sentences if you help me see where they begin and end and this is part of capitalization's value. So at least for me your goal of putting ideas in my mind may be a little less effective
  • probably_wrong 7mo ago
    It's hard to take your argument of "removing capitalization has made my writing better" seriously when your comment history shows that you do capitalize your written text. But leaving that aside: Capitalization makes it easy for the reader to know where a concept ends and a new one begins. Without capitalization, your comment reads like a run-on sentence - a period in my display is 2px tall while a comma is 3.5px tall, the lack of capitalization makes my brain read them all as commas, and therefore your text is harder for me to parse. So I'd say yes, removing capitals did change the landing of your ideas for the worse.
    • netsharc 7mo ago
      That reminds me of an interaction I had with a foreign exchange intern at my uni. I was working in an organization that organized these exchanges and I was giving him the orientation on his first day, including introducing him to his employer. The employer wanted him to write an email to some other person in the company, and he 1st wrote it with no caps n txtspeak, and when he was done he went back through it so it would have proper sentences... It was flabbergasting..
• bluepeter 7mo ago
  British aristocracy has been pronouncing their own surnames wrong for centuries on purpose. Cholmondeley is "Chumley" Featherstonehaugh is "Fanshaw." If you read it phonetically you mark yourself as an outsider. The misstake is the membership card. (Heck, even in Portland we locals hear about misprouncing Couch St probably every year in local press as some bar for membership to our own locals only vibe.)
  • teachrdan 7mo ago
    There's also the British penchant for deliberately mispronouncing French words. I have heard "renaissance" pronounced "reh-NAY-sance", "fillet" pronounced "fill-it", "valet" as "val-it" and so on. I think it's a national point of pride to pronounce the words of their neighbor incorrectly.
    • bluepeter 7mo ago
      Yep. And try "lieutenant" or "herb" on for size. (Edit: I guess "herb" is a bit of a complex one... originally from Latin's "herba" where the H was pronounced, but from UK it came most immediately from French's "herbe" with no H sound. So UK did somehow shortcut back to a more original sound.)
      • fy20 7mo ago
        As a Brit, my understanding of the American pronunciation was from Italian immigrants in the US.
        • dfedbeef 7mo ago
          Oybs
    • jpfromlondon 7mo ago
      America is at least as guilty of mispronouncing non-english words it's just natural drift. As to fillet and valet, they joined english before the contemporary french pronunciation, and are much closer to the middle-french.
• howlingfantods 7mo ago
  Grammar at its best promotes clear communication but more often is used as a social tool of control and exclusion. When you are already talking to people within your in-group, that impulse isn’t necessary.
  • PaulHoule 7mo ago
    On some level. Thing is it is visible and everybody knows what the standards are, social mobility is possible under the sign of grammar. If the game is wearing a $20k watch or understanding the covert signs of status that you might find in a particular community, that's something different.
  • ekjhgkejhgk 7mo ago
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    • kanbara 7mo ago
      people aren’t saying “aks” to make a public statement against you for whatever reason. they’re saying it because that’s how they learned to speak and the dialect of speakers who they were surrounded with. yeah, people code switch, but i have come across many many people who just say things differently from the majority pronunciation. they’re not misunderstood and they can communicate just fine (see nucular vs nuclear). that’s just how language works, right
      • ekjhgkejhgk 7mo ago
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  • z500 7mo ago
    Everyone uses grammar. What you're describing is elitism and elevating one particular dialect above all others.
    • falcor84 7mo ago
      According to the wide definition of grammar, everyone uses some grammar, but nevertheless it's not a category error to say "*this sentence got grammar mistake". When we speak about the grammar for a language/dialect we imply a prescribed "correct" grammar for a particular community of speakers.
• jrks11o 7mo ago
  https://archive.ph/wlwcA https://archive.ph/wlwcA
  • dang 7mo ago
    Thanks! Added above.
• throw_rust 7mo ago
  It's a lace-curtain thing to actually spell things properly, actual upstairs people don't give a toss thereabout.
• deleted 7mo ago
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• potsandpans 7mo ago
  nowadays, if you have correct spelling and grammar people accuse you of being an llm.
  • djeastm 7mo ago
    I don't find this at all. There's a certain style, or flourish, to LLM-ish writing that makes it noticeable. It's not just spelling and grammar.
  • RandallBrown 7mo ago
    I end all of my sentences with periods and I was told that I have a negative attitude at work because of it. Seriously, my manager's advice was to stop ending my sentences with periods.
    • 0cf8612b2e1e 7mo ago
      In lieu of exclamation points? Or just run on chains of thought?
    • farisa_lives 7mo ago
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    • ordu 7mo ago
      IIRC there was some psychological paper claiming that periods at the end of chat messages are bearing some emotional signal. I don't remember what it was exactly. I suppose your manager was too much into shitty psychological research.
    • john_strinlai 7mo ago
      i sort of get it. or, at least, i can empathize with it. my dad (in his 80s) ends 50%+ of his sentences in an ellipses. most people i know my age find it a bit jarring (is he mad? expecting more information?). and its not just him, ive met several people around the same age who have a similar habit in their writing. so, when i had a similar conversation about coming across as rigid/negative with my emails, i figured it was a similar phenomenon between the younger generation and my generation as my generation and my dads. now i typically end with a "thanks!" to coworkers instead of "thanks.". not a big deal for me if it makes other people happier.
• draw_down 7mo ago
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• bjackman 7mo ago
  I see this at my $megagorp job. The top brass don't do that much written communication, but when they do they are absolutely shooting from the hip. It's not as bad as Epstein but it's a strong "I've already started reading the next email while I'm typing this one" vibes. FWIW I don't have a problem with it at all. As the article mentioned there's an aspect of power politics (I'm important enough not to have to worry about formatting). But to me instead of <I wish elites weren't so callous with text> I feel <everyone should feel empowered to write like that> (again, maybe not quite to the level of Epstein, but e.g. capitalisation is just unimportant. Signing off emails with "best wishes" is not a good use of anyone's 500 milliseconds).
  • 10xDev 7mo ago
    >capitalisation is just unimportant. Signing off emails with "best wishes" is not a good use of anyone's 500 milliseconds Yet I'm on Twitter reading "Prison for attempted murderer enablers like this clown" by the world's richest man who is tweeting all day. My guess is that it has just become a way of status signalling more than anything else.
  • quesera 7mo ago
    > capitalisation is just unimportant Capitalization is the difference between: - helping your friend Jack off a horse, and - helping your friend jack off a horse. (Not original, but memorable!)
    • casey2 7mo ago
      Natural languages have inherent ambiguity. That includes your grammar with capitalization, any kind of standard english grammar of which there are dozens Which person does Jack refer to? What if you have 2 friends named Jack? Does "horse" refer to a member of a class of animal or something else? Sorry but your examples are full of indecipherable nonsense. But I guess if you just pretend that everything you write is well understood then there is no problem. Capitalization slightly narrows a search space that is already narrow, since that is it's only functional use it should only be used when appropriate. If every rule was applied at every instance your writing would both become indecipherable and you'd subtly change your intended meaning. Better to be misunderstood by some than to water down your message and add class/prestige/formality/distance all of which are inappropriate in most writing. I guess your teacher gave you that example, but you ABSOLUTELY FAILED to understand the meaning of their lesson.
• janalsncm 7mo ago
  > But in another instance, Epstein was critical of misspelling. A contact forwarded the sex offender his daughter’s college application in 2013. “I wish you had let me review before sending…the grammatical errors and spelling mistakes will make it at least harder for early admission,” Epstein wrote. It is funny that spelling and grammar matter more when writing to an admissions officer than to a potential business partner. But it’s also funny to imagine a world where you could send in an essay with a bunch of typos and grammar mistakes and expect it not to influence your application. Spelling and grammar matter in the sense that they are a signal that you know a complicated and somewhat arbitrary set of rules and have agreed to follow them.
  • whywhywhywhy 7mo ago
    >It is funny that spelling and grammar matter more when writing to an admissions officer than to a potential business partner Things that matter in academia world don't always matter in the real world and vice versa.
    • janalsncm 7mo ago
      Right, the deeper question is why it “matters” in academia and not business. Because in some sense academia is the real world.
      • toast0 7mo ago
        > Because in some sense academia is the real world. The old one; what's the difference between academia and the real world? In academia, there is no difference.
      • RhysU 7mo ago
        Proper grammar on formulaic language is a proof-of-work system. Difficult to achieve but easy to check. It suggests that the author cared enough to put in the time. When the cost of graduate labor is low, careful editing suggests that you can burn a student's time to demonstrate the message is worth reading.
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• dbg31415 7mo ago
  My take, after spending years in the prep-school-to-Ivy pipeline: it's not a lack of education, it's a signaling mechanic. For most of us, grammar is a proxy for competence. We proofread because a mistake could cost us a grade, client, or a job. But the ultra-rich are basically operating post-economically. They aren’t trying to advance; they started rich and they’ll end rich, so they have absolutely no one to impress (and certainly not you). When you grow up in an environment where friction is historically outsourced—where papers are bought, tutors do the heavy lifting, or SATs are taken by proxies—you never really get held to the same operational standards. You just learn to slop it across the finish line because the consequences for failure are zero. So who are they trying to impress with their grammar? Nobody. It actually becomes a display of asymmetric leverage. Taking the time to craft a perfect, well-punctuated email screams, "I spent my valuable time optimizing this for you." A typo-ridden, lowercase, one-sentence reply sends the exact opposite message. It establishes a power dynamic where their two seconds of raw attention is the most valuable commodity in the exchange. Following spelling conventions is just middle-class anxiety; sloppiness is the flex. All conventions are for the plebs anyway. Plus, low-fidelity communication gives them incredible optionality. A garbled, ambiguous text provides perpetual wiggle room. They weren't late or wrong, it was just a typo. It allows them to remain completely non-committal—just another way to maintain high status while shedding any actual accountability.
• pessimizer 7mo ago
  Most of these people are legitimately stupid. This article is also pretty stupid for focusing on grammar and spelling when the content of these emails is also quite moronic. I don't think Larry Summers was fired for hanging out with Epstein and talking terribly about women with him; I'm sure plenty of people knew that he was an Epstein-type and hung in Epstein-type circles, and he publicly said horrible things about women's capacities, to people he barely knew. I think he was fired for sounding like a subnormal reddit dweller. Simply seeming like a mediocre dumb guy. The idea that he was teaching their precious children was simply repellent to Harvard alums. It makes it even more of an obscenity that he was in charge of the government response to the housing bubble, and for running up the stock market in the late 90s. It's so much worse when you confirm the awful acts were done by an actually dumb guy. You want to fool yourself into thinking that these monsters were trapped by some bad premise within some elaborately reasoned theory or at least unfortunately tripped up by a sign error or a transposed digit buried somewhere. Nope, just a guy whose job is to sit in a chair with a bunch of qualifying paper around his name, and do the things that his backers pay him to do. An elite robosigner. They're not even charming or handsome.
  • throw4847285 7mo ago
    It's funny that for all the complaints people have about the accuracy of The Social Network, the aspect that has aged the worst is that Larry Summers is depicted as clever and witty.
  • jordanb 7mo ago
    Summers and Mandelson are the most fascinating characters in all this. These guys never held elected office, and were toxic enough that even giving them appointments was politically difficult. Yet they absolutely controlled the parties they were a part of, wielding enormous power for decades. They were loathed by the base of the parties and demonstrably hurt the parties politically. Their policies were politically toxic. They maintained their control through an air of super-competence: they were the faultless mandarins willing to say the unsalable and serve bitter medicine; they were selfless servants of the country. That whole facade was torn apart not just because they were shown to be sex-pests if not outright abusers. But because they were shown to be inarticulate, incompetent, petty, and self-interested.
• rendall 7mo ago
  I'm just plain cannot visit archive.* sites anymore. Just get a looping captcha.
  • littlexsparkee 7mo ago
    Seemed to affect me in Firefox but not Safari, maybe something in cookies
  • skygazer 7mo ago
    Probably your DNS -- the archive.today guy is a stickler that dns must pass client subnet to partially deanonymize visitors, and for instance, cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 server doesn't pass it. I think that's still the case.
  • Multicomp 7mo ago
    Suddenly got that too. I let archives push me off quad9 but now cloudflare has to go too? Hmmm IDK if I want to read this article that bad.
  • viktoresku 7mo ago
    https://smry.ai/https:/www.wsj.com/lifestyle/jeffrey-epstein-files-bad-grammar-spelling-trump-ellison-dorsey-gates-thiel-cbfe9fb1 https://smry.ai/https:/www.wsj.com/lifestyle/jeffrey-epstein...
  • fwn 7mo ago
    I do stumble over looping captcha issues on archive.* occasionally as well. In my case, it usually helps to change my VPN location.
• lenerdenator 7mo ago
  Looking through the files, I just assumed that they were typing on a tiny keyboard and made typos.
• nivertech 7mo ago
  /ði ˈɡloʊbəl iˈliːt (ænd ˈɛvɹiˌwʌn ɛls) ʃʊd swɪtʃ tu fəˈniːmɪk ˈspɛlɪŋ/
  • ge96 7mo ago
    global elite and everyone else said switch to phonetic spelling?
    • cenamus 7mo ago
      Actually, phonemic ;)
      • saltwatercowboy 7mo ago
        jʊə ˈkɪlɪŋ miː smɔːlz!
• j_seigh 7mo ago
  It seems almost nobody can spell lose correctly anymore. I assume it's deliberate.
  • scotty79 7mo ago
    The correct spelling of this, is just wrong so people intuitively disregard it.
• metalman 7mo ago
  spelling , especialy spelling, is weaponised by those who have self institutionalised, in order to censor the speach and thought of those who have those capabilities, but even then, as the man once said, "there are things that can only be expressed with an inflatable giraffe filled with whipped cream"
• O1111OOO 7mo ago
  Please stop overthinking and listening to publications that insist on creating some kind of a caste system. I didn't bother to even read the article (it's behind a paywall, I don't read articles with nonsense headlines). There is this need to separate the behavior of wealthy/powerful people vs those who are poorer/hold less powerful positions. The behavior's the same when it comes to writing and sending messages. I've dealt with both consistently and constantly over several decades.
  • O1111OOO 7mo ago
    Also the use of the word "elite" that ties into the same kind of wordplay training that's used in cult-like subservient thinking. Are we suppose to bow? Come on! The word is ruling class - not elite, not special, not more important. The current ruling class is everyone tied to the epstein file, including a malignant foreign government and some members of our own intelligence agencies. Not elite!
• al_borland 7mo ago
  I don’t know why this needs to be a class issue. Using auto-correct as a scapegoat for spelling and grammar issues has now made them socially acceptable to the point that most people don’t call it out anymore, or use it as a means to discredit someone’s underlying argument. As auto-correct has become seemingly worse, I think a lot of people have just given up fighting it all the time.
  • red-iron-pine 7mo ago
    class issues get clicks in 2026, mate
• ChoGGi 7mo ago
  And so it shall come to pass Eternal September appears 'mongst the touchscreens of the great pretenders. Woe to the spelling fanatics and grammar Nazis. The beast of two fingers reigns supreme. The model M's will clack no more.
• rglover 7mo ago
  Obligatory [1]. [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfl5YHv0h4&t=97s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfl5YHv0h4&t=97s
• wlowenfeld 7mo ago
  A new class signal emerges :)
• cobbzilla 7mo ago
  the all-lowercase thing was popular on the early internet. i sometimes slip into it; always thought of it as the written equivalent of dressing like a slacker- it signals a bit of laziness mixed with some nonconformity but maybe the elite use it differently
  • ikr678 7mo ago
    Disabling device keyboard profile settings/typing suggestions/spellcheck if you are say, a paranoid criminal, will also result in lowercase/missed punctuations as seen in the Epstein emails
• casey2 7mo ago
  For the same reason you wouldn't write POSIX compliant code in a project that doesn't require it. There is no gain. You are absolutely braindead if you think wasting your time looking up the correct grammar is helpful to anyone. Like literal fucking completely braindead. A walking ghost While you sit in homeostasis ruminating on the consequences of a misplaced comma someone else snatched up your deal
  • unmole 7mo ago
    > looking up the correct grammar Why on earth would one have the need to look up grammar?
• gherkinnn 7mo ago
  As others have said, my money is on the banal. They're just morons. Successful morons, but morons non the less. The fact that neither you or I are part of the global elite isn't entirely due to a lack of merit, but a lack of luck and, quite possibly, a lack of psychopathy. Just the other day, or so I assume, one of them ran out of toilet paper and awkwardly shuffled towards a solution. We're all just apes.
  • gherkinnn 7mo ago
    The irony of replacing one coping mechanism (the elites are 4D chess players) with a different one (the elites are morons) is not lost in me.
    • red-iron-pine 7mo ago
      ¿Por Qué No Los Dos?
      • Schmerika 7mo ago
        Yeah, that one right there. It takes a truly abnormal degree of intelligence/deviousness to manipulate global narratives. That doesn't mean you have the basic bare minimum intelligence/decency to at least try and leave the world a better place than you found it; a concept most 'simpler' folk understand with a minimum of guidance. The Epstein class are 'intelligent' enough to rationalize away their misdeeds in all sorts of ways, sometimes even intentionally - but not intelligent enough to realize that they're doing so, or what they're losing.
• Freedumbs 7mo ago
  No evidence, pure speculation. They're dumb, and lazy. Never had to work for anything.
  • cindyllm 7mo ago
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• a22a-dev 7mo ago
  I think it's to protect themselves from large-scale surveillance as to what they're talking to, who they're talking to, and what they're talking about.