Submitted 2 months ago by Jankatarch@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
there is a more consistent alternative that makes exact same sound.
it’s also already established and everyone will understand it.
capital letters makes string parsing slightly more pain too.
on the topic of computers, systems with case-sensitive names just get confusing when capitals are involved.
meanwhile systems without it just make capital more unnecesary.
camelCase is the only practical situation to capital letters and most of the population won’t ever use that.
useless
Reading text without capitalization is annoying. I know because I read your post.
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.
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LET PEOPLE KNOW I LIKE CRANKING MY HOG WITHOUT CAPITAL LETTERS!? ARRROOOOO!
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.
German: Komm wir essen Opa! Komm wir essen, Opa!
English: Come we are eating grandpa. Come we are eating, grandpa.
There’s 26 excited letters to use for emphasis but you opted to be dry as Toast.
might be because creepy people have inconsistant capitalization rofl.
“send Pics.”
BUT HOW CAN I GET MY POINT ACROSS ON THE INTERNET?!?!?
Capitals help unconscious structuring in your brain. Leave them be. Source: gf does phd on low level eye stuff
IMPOSSIBLE. HOW WILL I ENSURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I’M SAYING IF IT’S NOT IN ALL CAPS?
As far as I know, other languages (Japanese, Arabic etc) get along without capital letters…
Is capital letters just a European thing?
Greco-Roman thing, kept because it is in fact useful and has a point. For example, designating proper nouns. Or Demonstrating Emphasis For Silly People And Facebook Olds. OR TO CONVEY VOLUME OF “SPEECH.”
Stupid.
i too am a sapphic
Not for Patrick McNealy
I find uncapitalized text strangely pleasant to read. This better not awaken something in me.
one of us
one of us
sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, this argument feels much more convincing.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
i can tell they care a lot about this topic
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I dIsAgReE wItH bOtH oF yOu. PeRfEcT bAlAnCe Is KeY.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You sound like my dad’s handwriting reads
U@piefed.social 2 months ago
I'MWITHYOUWESHOULD
JUSTGOFULLYROMANAN
DWRITEALLCAPSNOSPAC
ESORPUCTUATIONFUCKY
EAHANNODOMINIMXXV