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chronogram 6 hours ago

What's the idea behind not using capital letters?

agadius 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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?

zdc1 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

benjojo12 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

mvkel 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Presumably a shibboleth for human-generated content

fixxation92 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd take all lowercase over all uppercase anyday

cowthulhu 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

Gigachad 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Gen Z illiteracy crisis.

titanomachy 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Let's not turn HN into a bunch of crotchety old men complaining about the youths.

KPGv2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Any particular reason you didn't write a complete sentence but still used a period, kid?