Why is the new style to avoid capitalization when writing? I see it everywhere now. I can only imagine the annoyance of fighting autocorrect just to format your content like this.
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#42> so now, i am one of those people that plucks their ears when an emergency vehicle goes by with the siren blaring. You might get one of those low-end decibel meters that supposedly are calibrated at the factory (around $25 in the US), to measure how loud the sirens are. Maybe they're louder than they need to be, and you can request for them to be adjusted, as a public health improvement. I've been meaning to do some…
I feel you, but I also think you don't need to buy special equipment, they might ignore anyway.
To get a rough reading, your smartphone can provide that data via app. Then you would have some numbers you can tell official people - and then they can measure again with calibrated eqipment if in doubt.
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#43I can hear the high frequencies of cathode ray tubes, and generally feel like I hear much higher frequencies than others.
That’s just normal, but when I’m tired or stressed, my blood pressure is up, or I’m sick, it’s what most people probably classify as tinnitus and is at a much lower frequency, more of a high pitched tone.
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#44Why is the new style to avoid capitalization when writing? I see it everywhere now. I can only imagine the annoyance of fighting autocorrect just to format your content like this.
It has a button to captilize, which is neat.
The two versions read slightly differently to me. So I assume the slight different tone is part of the point.
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#45Why is the new style to avoid capitalization when writing? I see it everywhere now. I can only imagine the annoyance of fighting autocorrect just to format your content like this.
Kids doing weird shit to stand out, like every generation. It makes reading harder, and with modern tools it certainly isn't any easier to write—with both those things working against it I doubt it'll stick around.
it's not to stand out when every person types like this
the real reason is it's conversational. it's casual. it removes the gap between the reader and the writer
it's how people talk in a chat with their friends
in pretty much every language across the world, writing was always "formal" and lacked the voice of a couple of people having a chat. at some points, writing was even a separate language. east asian people did lots of their correspondence in classical chinese instead of using their own languages. the catholic church hated the idea of people reading the bible in anything but latin
then people chilled out and realized writing how we speak makes it more accessible to everyone. and that's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. novels started taking a more conversational style and some people looked down on that decades ago. now those novels are considered classics, and honestly, i'd attribute half of that to their writing seeming "formal" in retrospect because formal speech today is yesterday's casual speech. now people will revolt against modern writing and think it's below them. in 5 decades people will think this kind of writing is very formal
basically, it doesn't make it harder. it makes it easier. people write how they think and they don't worry about being perfect. and as another commenter said, autoformatting and autocorrecting tools just break shit more than they fix it these days. i can't even type "i have 5 pennies" without my phone correcting it to "I have 5 Pennie's" for some reason.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kids doing weird shit to stand out, like every generation. It makes reading harder, and with modern tools it certainly isn't any easier to write—with both those things working against it I doubt it'll stick around.
it's not to stand out when every person types like this the real reason is it's conversational. it's casual. it removes the gap between the reader and the writer it's how people talk in a chat with their friends in pretty much every language across the world, writing was always "formal" and lacked the voice of a couple of people having a chat. at some points, writing was even a separate language. east asian people di…
> it's not to stand out when every person types like this
Yeah, OK, I should have written "for social signaling".
> basically, it doesn't make it harder.
Iassureyou,capitalizationisn'tbecauseit'spretty.Aspectsofwrittenlanguageareoftenthereforverygoodreasonsrelatedtomakingreadinglower-effort.
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#47Why is the new style to avoid capitalization when writing? I see it everywhere now. I can only imagine the annoyance of fighting autocorrect just to format your content like this.
Kids doing weird shit to stand out, like every generation. It makes reading harder, and with modern tools it certainly isn't any easier to write—with both those things working against it I doubt it'll stick around.
Somebody just discovered E. E. Cummings and thought "I'm gonna be original just like that guy!"
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#48> so now, i am one of those people that plucks their ears when an emergency vehicle goes by with the siren blaring. You might get one of those low-end decibel meters that supposedly are calibrated at the factory (around $25 in the US), to measure how loud the sirens are. Maybe they're louder than they need to be, and you can request for them to be adjusted, as a public health improvement. I've been meaning to do some…
I feel you, but I also think you don't need to buy special equipment, they might ignore anyway. To get a rough reading, your smartphone can provide that data via app. Then you would have some numbers you can tell official people - and then they can measure again with calibrated eqipment if in doubt.
Is there an app you'd recommend?
(PhyPhox on my phone says it wants to be "calibrated" against one of those meters, but I haven't checked how accurate it is without that.)
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#49I feel terrible because I never did anything wrong. I never went to a concert. I never worked around loud things for prolonged periods. I never listened to music too loud. I have tinnitus. It seems to go up in intensity when my TMD acts up, but it never goes completely away.
Mine isn't nearly debilitating, but I worry that it's going to get worse with time.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's not to stand out when every person types like this the real reason is it's conversational. it's casual. it removes the gap between the reader and the writer it's how people talk in a chat with their friends in pretty much every language across the world, writing was always "formal" and lacked the voice of a couple of people having a chat. at some points, writing was even a separate language. east asian people di…
> it's not to stand out when every person types like this Yeah, OK, I should have written "for social signaling". > basically, it doesn't make it harder. Iassureyou,capitalizationisn'tbecauseit'spretty.Aspectsofwrittenlanguageareoftenthereforverygoodreasonsrelatedtomakingreadinglower-effort.
saying "the way i write is correct. the way they write is signaling (and that's implicitly wrong)" is not a stance any serious linguist will support.
it is an interesting point to take, to claim that lowercase makes reading difficult. 12 year olds have no problem communicating this way and it's very easily understood. same with 30 somethings such as myself. it's not really the responsibility of the youth to limit their expression for the comprehension older people who don't engage with things they consider below them
german has even more extreme capitalization and english tossed out those rules. Maybe We could return to Something Similar to the Rules that German uses and That could be helpful for easy Reading?
or maybe english speakers just decided those rules were annoying and dropped them and people never missed those rules decades later when we forgot they ever existed