HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LET PEOPLE KNOW I LIKE CRANKING MY HOG WITHOUT CAPITAL LETTERS!? ARRROOOOO!
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Reading text without capitalization is annoying. I know because I read your post.
FULLY DISAGREE LOWER CASE IS TRASH ONLY CAPITAL LETTERS CAN RULE THIS WORLD.
BETTER FOR READABILITY, BETTER FOR YOUR SOUL.
NO MORE LOWER CASE.
ALSO, SNAKE_CASE_IS--king
I dIsAgReE wItH bOtH oF yOu. PeRfEcT bAlAnCe Is KeY.
I mean, this argument feels much more convincing.
You sound like my dad's handwriting reads
I'MWITHYOUWESHOULD JUSTGOFULLYROMANAN DWRITEALLCAPSNOSPAC ESORPUCTUATIONFUCKY EAHANNODOMINIMXXV
Languages that have more thought put into them than English use capital letters to help guide the reader's eye, structure the sentence, and differentiate between types of words. They also use more commas, for similar reasons. You just don't know what you're missing.
If nothing else, not capitalizing first letters and proper nouns will just look weird to many readers. If there's no capitalization in a sentence, I'm inclined to assume the writer accidentally mistyped an incomplete sentence or phrase. Not capitalizing proper nouns will create significant confusion since some proper nouns are also general terms.
"after friday, land is out."
Is that a reference to land as in earth or is it a reference to someone whose last name is Land?
Making communication more difficult by requiring your reader to spend more effort to parse your intended message might not be a good idea.
BUT HOW CAN I GET MY POINT ACROSS ON THE INTERNET?!?!?
There's 26 excited letters to use for emphasis but you opted to be dry as Toast.
I just wish my phone would stop teaching itself to capitalize Pic. It'll go months accepting it's a common word and then decide it's just a proper noun again
might be because creepy people have inconsistant capitalization rofl.
"send Pics."
IMPOSSIBLE. HOW WILL I ENSURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING IF IT'S NOT IN ALL CAPS?
Stupid.
Not for Patrick McNealy
i too am a sapphic