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by wizard-beta 1748 days ago
I have studied linguistics at an advanced academic level, but I cannot parse the title. The article itself is less coherent than those AI random text generators. Maybe the author should focus on basic literacy before worrying about typography.
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I'll help you - and yes, it was a struggle:

"The use of lower case in writing as resistance [against the instances of assignment of importance that come with capitalization] in order to support the expression of indigenous aboriginal culture".

The composer clearly has different interests than those you recommend.

About capitalization and attribution of importance: we do process those implicits already, as per "the manual".

I am not sure the cause that the formulator wanted to promote is defended by having people use energies to decrypt. One is satisfied with the exercise, but then sees the expense as largely futile.

Other notes would be possible, but they would be further expense. The writer clearly remained in a world of assumptions similar to "the world is changed by imposing images". Probably itself an image clinger.

The general insanity and incoherence is why I posted this. In this case the medium is really the message. Note that the author is a PhD employed by a Canadian university that was established in 1910.
Have you also noticed odd phenomena coming from Canadian education? I was quite shocked by seeing years ago recordings of debates or conferences involving academicians on the stage of university halls, in which the audience behaved like hooligans in a stadium: "guts, guts, guts, guts, yeeeah, booo...".

In one, the two academicians acted with an appearance of moderation in the exposure of their ideas, but the appearance was really acted, and overacted - look down, hesitate, mumble, modulate, "mhmh, we just believe that this and that"... The website of one presented very violent depictions of said ideas, including cheap mockeries in drawings (again with the implicit, "this is what you think and feel and is sensational to you if you are one of us").