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justaguy37
1638 days ago
can we just say no to capital letters? (or lowercase?)
do capital letters have a good enough usage case to justify their continued existence?
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colejohnson66
1638 days ago
You are free to stop using capital letters, but good luck getting everyone to go along. Capitals have been around for centuries (they’re older than the printing press) and aren’t going anywhere.
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bmn__
1637 days ago
The lower-case letters in Greek/Latin/Cyrillic are the new additions, initially we only had what is now called upper-case.
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Lammy
1638 days ago
Fun fact: The Apple Ⅱ and Ⅱ+ originally only did upper-case, and it was very popular to add a Shift Key / lower-case mod via one of the gamepad buttons:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010212094858/http://home.swbel...
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