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What's the idea behind not using capital letters?
by chronogram 7mo ago
What's the idea behind not using capital letters?
- cowthulhu 7mo agoThe author is trying very hard to look like they are not trying at all.
- DANmode 7mo agoor learned English chatting on the Internet? At least make it sound like you’re speculating if you’re going to.
- mvkel 7mo agoPresumably a shibboleth for human-generated content
- Gigachad 7mo agoGen Z illiteracy crisis.
- titanomachy 7mo agoLet's not turn HN into a bunch of crotchety old men complaining about the youths.
- KPGv2 7mo agoAny particular reason you didn't write a complete sentence but still used a period, kid?
- jaapz 7mo agoThat's a pretty long blog post for someone who's illiterate
- zdc1 7mo agoGen Z will often write like that, feeling that using capitalisation feels too "formal" for non-professional communication. It's feel just the next evolution in our written messaging dialect. Gen X had c u l8r?. Millennials didn't have to pay per character, and got full qwerty keyboards so opted for normal sentences. And now Gen Z have decided that auto-capitalisation is unnecessary.
- fixxation92 7mo agoI'd take all lowercase over all uppercase anyday
- benjojo12 7mo agoI can't speak for the OPs case, but it's worth keeping in mind that not all languages that people are coming from have capital letters as a concept. I actually didn't notice the lack of caps until I read this comment
- agadius 7mo agoI found it pretty hard to read without the caps. I guess the punctuation mark is too small for my elderly eyes, and my brain sees it like one gigantic sentence. Perhaps the author of the blog is a fan of Kafka?
- DANmode 7mo agoCtrl + “+” in your browser :] I also didn’t notice the lack of caps until coming to the comments. …and I’m a pedantic SOB!
- Scoundreller 7mo agoI also wondered if Jack Dorsey's shift button was broken in his firing tweet: https://xcancel.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343 https://xcancel.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343