[alabastervlog]

> it's not to stand out when every person types like this

Yeah, OK, I should have written "for social signaling".

> basically, it doesn't make it harder.

Iassureyou,capitalizationisn'tbecauseit'spretty.Aspectsofwrittenlanguageareoftenthereforverygoodreasonsrelatedtomakingreadinglower-effort.

[forgotoldacc]

saying "the way i write is correct. the way they write is signaling (and that's implicitly wrong)" is not a stance any serious linguist will support.

it is an interesting point to take, to claim that lowercase makes reading difficult. 12 year olds have no problem communicating this way and it's very easily understood. same with 30 somethings such as myself. it's not really the responsibility of the youth to limit their expression for the comprehension older people who don't engage with things they consider below them

german has even more extreme capitalization and english tossed out those rules. Maybe We could return to Something Similar to the Rules that German uses and That could be helpful for easy Reading?

or maybe english speakers just decided those rules were annoying and dropped them and people never missed those rules decades later when we forgot they ever existed

[wiseowise]

>> “it’s not signaling!”

> continues to provide reasons why it is signaling

[forgotoldacc]

it's called communication, yes

if the mere act of people using language to communicate frustrates you, that is a personal problem