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Looking forward to what he will do next. If it's ChatGPT's competitor, AI landscape will be spicy & exciting
Somehow, I'm betting there's a non-compete with some pasture money in there somewhere.
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Where I come from that means you can adopt a looser style as well, and don't need to bother writing formally with that person. It's considered "friendly". In fact in German it would be really awkward if one person stuck to formal language when the other makes an attempt to be informal - sticking to it is like saying "keep your distance" and could be a little hurtful for the person who tried to be informal. I'm curiou…
About 5 years ago, my CEO emailed me with something like 'yo! can you do me a favor'. Middle management was CCed on the email thread and when I responded something like 'Sure! Happy to help', I was chewed out by my director for being informal and thus disrespectful...
In any case, I try to always write in full sentences for professional communications as a minimum (even if there are sprinkles of informal language)—I'm more comfortable writing this way at work, and it has the added benefit that it's hard for a third party to make a similar comment like you've experienced.
(At the other end, it can also be seen as too stiff and uncomfortable to be overly formal, even to supervisors. I've seen this where I had a direct report who was excessively formal at first. By encouraging him to open up and speak more openly, I believe that created a foundation for a more trusting work environment over time, which encouraged him to take more initiative and share his ideas when solving some problems that we were later facing as a team.)
Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.
Capitalisation and punctuation provides a form and rhythm to written prose. When you scan (English) prose, your eyes very quickly pick up the start and end of a clause or sentence via the capitol letters and certain marks. English lacks nearly all accents and other "letter adjuster marks" that other languages enjoy. That generally means that when you see a mark of some sort in an English sentence it is a form of containment and not a change of sound.
That means we have a lot less sound adjusters, which means we end up with a lot more "local knowledge". A silly example: Slough and slough - the first is a town in Berkshire and the second is what snakes and crabs etc do to their skins/carapaces to grow to the next size.
That said, English is extraordinarily tolerant of pronunciation in most cases. You may not know the "correct" sound of a word but a bit of a dabble (try slightly different approaches) will get you there.
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It's not uncommon practice that originates from newspapers. Writing all low case is way to make sure that everybody understand the writing is just a draft, not ready for printing, or not final or official correspondence. Editor could not just send it to press without proofreading and editing it.
I disagree. It is either simply lazy or (charitable interpretation) ... lazy. No journo. or professional writer I know would ever forget to hit the shift key for some sort of weird "convenience". It is harder to write all lower case prose. Hit . + and you are primed to hold left shift for the next character with your left or right small finger (pinkie). We humans mostly have five digits per hand. Even a single finger…
Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.
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How could disabling auto-capitalization influence aesthetics?
i’ll bite. it might sound dumb to you, but not capitalizing sentences properly amongst certain groups effectively means you’re not concerned with the optics of being viewed as someone who “doesn’t know grammar”. it sort’ve displays a certain “I know proper grammar but I don’t really care to prove it to you”. edit: and as others mention, it can be seen as less formal and friendly as well don’t shoot the messenger :)
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Where I come from that means you can adopt a looser style as well, and don't need to bother writing formally with that person. It's considered "friendly". In fact in German it would be really awkward if one person stuck to formal language when the other makes an attempt to be informal - sticking to it is like saying "keep your distance" and could be a little hurtful for the person who tried to be informal. I'm curiou…
A mismatch in formality is noticeable too in English, from my experience. It think it's a bit more subtle compared to other languages, as there is no formal "you" (in contrast to "du" versus Sie" in German, "tu" and "vous" in French, "tú" and "usted" in Spanish, "你" and "您" in Mandarin, and examples in other languages). However, one difference in English is with greetings. If you are coworkers, especially at around t…
Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.
This is the Guggenheim, https://architectelevator.com/architecture/famous-architects...
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i’ll bite. it might sound dumb to you, but not capitalizing sentences properly amongst certain groups effectively means you’re not concerned with the optics of being viewed as someone who “doesn’t know grammar”. it sort’ve displays a certain “I know proper grammar but I don’t really care to prove it to you”. edit: and as others mention, it can be seen as less formal and friendly as well don’t shoot the messenger :)
personally i just find this easier to read. capitalization breaks flow and parsing for me.
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personally i just find this easier to read. capitalization breaks flow and parsing for me.
also: mobile autocorrect is garbage on so many devices its better to just turn it off. no one has time to shift case on mobile manually.