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chronogramtoday at 5:33 AM8 repliesview on HN

What's the idea behind not using capital letters?


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zdc1today at 6:06 AM

Gen 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.

Scoundrellertoday at 7:53 PM

I also wondered if Jack Dorsey's shift button was broken in his firing tweet: https://xcancel.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343

benjojo12today at 9:33 AM

I 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

agadiustoday at 11:21 AM

I 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?

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cowthulhutoday at 5:42 AM

The author is trying very hard to look like they are not trying at all.

mvkeltoday at 5:42 AM

Presumably a shibboleth for human-generated content

Gigachadtoday at 5:45 AM

Gen Z illiteracy crisis.

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fixxation92today at 7:44 AM

I'd take all lowercase over all uppercase anyday