• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    Come to think of it, is there actually much of any point to capital vs lowercase letters? You know what the first word of a sentence is anyway because of the period before, and names can be identified by context. Why do we even have capitalization in the first place?

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      7 months ago

      As I mentioned in another comment, the original reason we have majuscule and minuscule letters is the difference in materials they were written on. Having them persist in the typesetting is in fact more of a historical artifact

    • psud@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      We need capitals, as otherwise shouting online would have to move to bold

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          7 months ago

          Sure but that all takes extra keystrokes. Caps lock is cruise control for shouting

          Also the *shouts at you* tag was classic in chat things, but places like this need escapes to make them look right