[spokaneplumb]

Is there some kind of reader-mode filtering site one can put a URL in to get a version that undoes this extra effort to remove capital letters? From what I’ve gotten of this piece I think it’s up my alley, but reading it is unpleasant.

[edit] incidentally, if this fad doesn’t burn out soon we’re going to need a setting to fix it under the heading of accessibility. I expect there are several categories of people for whom this is even more annoying than for most of us, and who can’t just get over it or re-train their brain to do better without the very-useful cues provided by capital letters, notably dyslexics.

[xigency]

This is actually one of the great uses of transformer models. Pick your favorite A.I. and you can ask it to capitalize the text.

[deadbabe]

i don’t get it, most letters you read will be lowercase, what’s a few more in the grand scheme?

[DennisP]

Also, periods are just a small percentage of the characters. Maybe we should skip them.

[collingreen]

And spaces! They don't even have any content, just the wasted space! Let's drop those too.

[bookofjoe]

>'The Art of Asking Your Boss For A Raise' by French experimental author Georges Perec is best read aloud. It’s a theatrical piece with dazzling, recursive language that evokes laughter and pity at 'your' plight as you tackle the practical and emotional burden of asking for a much needed (if not deserved) pay increase while in the employ of one of France’s largest companies.

>The entirety of the book's 80 pages are one sentence, without punctuation, capitalization or spatial breaks.

https://www.michael-maiello.com/logical-loops-with-georges-p...

[sadeshmukh]

It speaks volumes that this is the first and probably last time I'll hear this.

[lbrito]

I don't get it, most of the streets don't have traffic lights, what's a few less in the grand scheme? :)

[gedy]

I suspect much of the reaction is that it seems a little pretentious, like a faux optimization along the lines of "Oh I'm soooo busy, no time for caps", etc.

[deadbabe]

It’s pretty pretentious to say you find a passage of text unpleasant to read just because there aren’t capitalized letters in it.

[gedy]

I just don't read long form in this silly style. Skipped.

[alvah]

Couldn’t read it & didn’t want to make the extra effort required to. Every message, paragraph, article, blog post or company missive I’ve ever read that deliberately went the extra mile to remove capitalisation was written by the type of “change for the sake of change is always better” numpty who is not yet mature enough to have any insights worth sharing.

[bdangubic]

thanks for letting everyone know you didn’t read it, we were all wondering about that :)

[alvah]

You’re welcome. Thanks for responding to part of my comment :)