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Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by pfortuny » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 1:19 PM UTC

cenamus wrote: post #152

minajevs wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in 1925 https://www.bauhaus-bookshelf.org/bauhaus_writing_in_small_l...

> it is inconsistent in language usage to write differently than to speak. we don’t speak big sounds, that’s why we don't write them either We don't speak big sounds? We also don't speak commas and full stops, but those are still an important part of writing. Trying to get some of the suprasegmental features of speech into low bandwidth text.

Yes, let us write without spaces or punctuation, that is what we used to do always!

Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by cons0le » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 1:29 PM UTC

RagnarD wrote: post #119

When did this writing with no capitalization start to become a thing? I'm seeing it too often now. It's pretentious crap and quickly leads to me thinking that the writer doesn't want to be taken seriously, so why read it?

bruh, we're never making it to space as a society if you can't stop getting hung up on pointless shit like this

who friggen cares? why can the president diddle kids, but a random internet user has to have perfect grammar to be taken seriously?

the poster of this article could probably not care less if you "take them seriously"

i actually interact with ideas, not grammar. Especially in a fun personal blog post like this

Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by oldpersonintx2 » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 1:33 PM UTC

hofrogs wrote: post #163

GaryBluto wrote: post #160

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That's impressive considering the article mentions "feminizing" things in big text the moment you load the page.

"feminizing" doesn't refer to a sexual fetish, it just means making something more feminine. Do you assume that something being feminine is automatically sexualized and fetishistic?

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Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by jckahn » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 1:36 PM UTC

com2kid wrote: post #3

I joined a compiler team out of college because it seemed like fun and I'd never worked on compilers before. I went from C# to embedded engineering and reading clock and wiring diagrams because there was a job that needed doing and I was the one there at the time. I went from embedded programming to running my own startup based on Javascript and React (technologies I'd never used) because I had an idea I wanted to sh…

Yes, but that often breaks down once you have bills to pay and need steady income. Real life tends to complicate things. The risk-averse path is a valid choice too, and often the only sensible one.

Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by monerozcash » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 1:38 PM UTC

int_19h wrote: post #134

bluedel wrote: post #131

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the lack of capitalization (and occasional omission of punctuation) was already a big thing on tumblr / twitter 10 years ago, especially in some anime and LGBT-adjacent spaces. I don't think jyn got it from Sam Altman, and I don't think he had that big a role in popularizing it.

It was a thing 25 years ago already in SMS and IM.

Before smartphones, it seems to have been the standard for just about every form of instant messaging. Well, morse has no capitalization and telex would typically have been uppercase-only too, but I think we can still count those?

I suspect that this is just something that happens naturally, for shorter-format messaging typing in sentence case probably offers no added readability and tends to get dropped over time.

Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by Hendrikto » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 1:52 PM UTC

Why do some people hate capital letters?

Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by the_af » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 1:58 PM UTC

"Reasons to do computer:

1. To contribute to the world's spiritual growth"

...damn, there go (out) most computer jobs!

Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by WorldPeas » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 2:01 PM UTC

Hendrikto wrote: post #186

Why do some people hate capital letters?

this forum probably isn't the best place to make that statement, though I can see both of us didn't take that hint when we made our names

Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by rzzzt » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 2:03 PM UTC

antoniojtorres wrote: post #121

RagnarD wrote: post #119

When did this writing with no capitalization start to become a thing? I'm seeing it too often now. It's pretentious crap and quickly leads to me thinking that the writer doesn't want to be taken seriously, so why read it?

relax

don't do it

Re: I'm just having fun

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Post by the_af » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 2:06 PM UTC

Perseids wrote: post #174

burningChrome wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My dev friends used to do this as a sort of inside joke around the office. If you were cool and hip, you wrote emails like this as a way to sort of thumb your nose at the establishment. I did it for a while until I was considered a "senior" dev and one of the VP's pulled me aside and said it reflects poorly on me when I'm not using proper grammar. He said as a senior dev in the org, I should hold myself to a higher s…

I wish non-conformity was more of a thing at points where it actually matters. Your product manager asks you to add invasive user tracking and surveillance? Push back and explain how this makes the world a worse place. Got a ticket to implement a "[yes][ask me later]" dialog [1]? Make a short survey that shows how user hate it. Nobody listens to you? Refuse to comply. The government requires you to take deeply unethi…

Yeah, agreed. Otherwise it's a kind of low stakes "non-conformity", even a conformity of sorts (because everything lowercase is/was actually an internet fad, so it's a kind of "extremely online" conformity).

Non-conformity where it matters would be a lot better, but it's also scarier.