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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

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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…

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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

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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)

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              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