• @Fosheze
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    106 months ago

    Why did she only capitalize a single “I”? Like it’s litterally the only capital letter. Also she didn’t capitalize the other “i”. Why didn’t she just leave them all lowercase? I need to know this.

    • @JustAnotherKay
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      136 months ago

      For emphasis, read it as if it was all capitalized normally but that one I is bolded

    • @[email protected]
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      96 months ago

      Intentionally lowercased the I because zoomers think formal writing is harsh or mean. Likely the next I was capitalized through autocorrect. Most zoomers completely disabled autocorrect so they can type in all lowercase

        • @[email protected]
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          106 months ago

          Gen Z here, mostly serious. not for that specific reason, it’s just more of a general trend in informal writing. i don’t have autocorrect off so that i can have apostrophes and hyphenation etc, but i manually lowercase every i when writing, usually…

          • @[email protected]
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            106 months ago

            I forgot to add this but younger people also think of ellipsis as ominous and having bad undertones like subtle anger

            • @[email protected]
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              106 months ago

              Weird. For me, the ellipsis is just a way of “trailing off” like I would when I speak. Kids these days… (no anger, just leaving off the “old man yelling at clouds” bits for brevity)

              • @[email protected]
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                6 months ago

                Language evolves, as it always has

                Especially in informal writing, tone is important, so various techniques end up developing to transmit that tone. Formal writing, which is what writing mostly used to be used for, does not use large amounts of tone

      • BougieBirdie
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        126 months ago

        You don’t need to use a period on the internet if it’s the end of a line. The line break signals the end of the sentence, unless maybe they trailed off in

        • @[email protected]
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          86 months ago

          You really should though. Not ending with a period just looks… off. And there’s really no reason not to, on phones, the period is generally right next to the send button on mobile, and it takes pretty much no extra effort on a regular keyboard.

          Stop being lazy and actually end your sentences…

          • BougieBirdie
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            96 months ago

            I think you thinking people are lazy for not typing the way you do says more about you than it does about them ;)

            • @[email protected]
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              76 months ago

              Idk, this whole subthread is complaining about weird capitalization. I don’t think I’m the only one this bothers.

          • @[email protected]
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            76 months ago

            It probably has to do with strict character limits and the habit spreading. Twitter is only, what, 156 characters? I know text messages used to be something similar, and early on, they cost around 3 cents a letter and you had to hit the numbers multiple times to cycle through to the letter or punctuation that you wanted. It’s where stuff like l33t speak came from, at least.

            • @[email protected]
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              36 months ago

              Fair. I grew up with 140 character limits for SMS and having limits on how many texts I could send, so I get it. But instead of cutting out punctuation, I used more direct language and abbreviations. Now that there’s no real limit on texts, I’m a bit more wordy and am extra careful about punctuation, especially since I use swipe texting.

          • @[email protected]
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            76 months ago

            Informal text communication has increasingly played with punctuation and grammar to indicate tone, emotion, and cadence. This has been happening for decades. Language is a tool that is fluid and malleable. There are only rules insofar as there is broad consensus on how language works at the moment. Stop being a weenie

          • @[email protected]
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            56 months ago

            If you’re typing a single sentence it’s pretty common to leave out the period, this just keeps it consistent