Comment by ablekh
6 years ago
The lack of attention to (or, rather, the complete disregard of) proper capitalization is ridiculous. This is the second post I'm seeing in two days that feature this "style". Quite a disturbing trend, if you ask me.
6 years ago
The lack of attention to (or, rather, the complete disregard of) proper capitalization is ridiculous. This is the second post I'm seeing in two days that feature this "style". Quite a disturbing trend, if you ask me.
What is ridiculous and disturbing about using lowercase letters at the beginning of your sentences? In a world where this trend continues your eye will become used to it and it will no longer be a distracting shock from what your eye is used to.
For one thing, when the text resumes after an image or quotation, you can't (easily) tell if it's the beginning of a sentence or not.
If this is your argument supporting this trend, then I'm speechless ...
If the author otherwise (that is, first word capitalization issue aside) writes grammatically better than >99% of other internet writers, I submit that you can grant them this one shred of self-expressive style. Goes pretty well with the terminal user theme, to boot.
It's pretty clear she pays mind to grammar and cares about its proper usage more than most.
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> If this is your argument
I was not providing an argument, I was attempting to save time by rebutting the argument I thought you would make.
Why do you find this trend "ridiculous" and "disturbing"? Deeper in this thread you state this is somehow worse UX, and makes the text less readable. I... don't see how it's any less readable, could you elaborate?
I had thought you might say that this style is distracting, because it is so unusual you're involuntarily pulled from the content and made to focus on the form. I was trying to say, this effect is real, but it is at worst a temporary one. As you note this is a real trend and I expect soon we'll all be used to it. I'm already pretty used to it.
It's also a little ironic that you're rebelling against a new capitalization scheme but you're happy to use "BTW". Can you find a dictionary from 10 years ago which includes "BTW"? You're clearly okay with some form of language evolution, why draw the line here?
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In a world where everyone has terrible body odor, your nose will become used to it and it will no longer be a distracting shock.
This analogy doesn't hold. You were born with a sensitivity for body odor, you were not born with any sensitivity for lowercase letters.
Do you really mean to imply that sentences which start with lowercase letters are intrinsically visually offensive?
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ever heard of konsequente kleinschreibung?
Never heard about it before seeing your comment. However, I have just looked it up and I think that the very limited scope (both temporal and geographical) of this "movement" just additionally emphasizes and supports the points that I have made in this thread.
why is it disturbing it reads fine to me
bEcAuSe pRoPer cApItAlIzAtIoN iS iMpOrTaNt fOr rEaDaBiLiTy ;-)
Here are a few seventh bits (01000000, \100, 64, 0x40) for your ANDing pleasure, so you can pull a Timothy Dexter and peper and solt it as you plese: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Perhaps, I'm dumb as rock, but what does your comment have to do with what I originally wrote above?
> for your ANDing pleasure
Oh?
It turns out I'm an idiot. I should have provided sixth bits (00100000, \040, 32, 0x20) for your XORing pleasure:
%20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20
My mistake.