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I have to admit that I chuckled at this comment, but mostly because I was nodding in partial agreement and partially because I expected to find at least one com
by Zancarius 13y ago
I have to admit that I chuckled at this comment, but mostly because I was nodding in partial agreement and partially because I expected to find at least one comment that said exactly this. :)
Wherever possible, I try to do the same. I understand it can be difficult with text messages quickly hammered out on a less than ideal interface, but I still can't shake the thought that refusal to at least properly capitalize is at the very least lazy. Although, I do find that as the years go by, I generally ignore these things if I'm already familiar with the person I'm communicating with, their habits, and typing behavior. Alarms only go off for me if their typing habits change dramatically (capitalizing where they normally didn't), because it means that they're on a different device than they normally use or because something else is going on.
- hosh 13y agoMost of the time, you can take the extra time to form your thought properly. Are we really in that much of a hurry?
- Zancarius 13y agoNo, I don't think so. Not generally, that is (standing in a line, distractions, or messy transportation notwithstanding). There's a part of me that feels a certain dismay for the mangling we've wrought upon the written word, but mostly because I know there isn't anything much that can be done... Although I do find one thing of particular amusement. A friend of mine IMs me with proper punctuation and capitalization only when he's on his iDevice and not at a keyboard. So I have to wonder if sometimes the opposite of TFA's argument is applicable...