Timeline for Why do some people write text all in lower case?
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| Dec 3 at 15:34 | comment | added | RicardoGMC | I favour using caps where caps are due, but, occasionally, I'll be chatting at a computer with an industrial-grade keyboard and the extra effort to press Shift quickly convinces me that 'i' can be more lenient with myself. | |
| Nov 28 at 2:14 | history | edited | user103496 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27 at 15:57 | comment | added | jsw29 | @user103496, note, however, that tchrist's answer, in the very first paragraph, says that this way of communicating is 'nothing new', and that it is not slang. Later on in the answer, he says that 'this particular all-lowercase style has been perfectly common in all casual computer communications, even since way back before the creation and general adoption of the Internet worldwide', and that 'this style far antedates the Millennials, as it was common in electronic texts even before the Internet'. You can hardly say that you 'completely disagree' with that. | |
| Nov 27 at 7:18 | history | edited | user103496 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27 at 7:17 | comment | added | user103496 | @jsw29: The selected answer claims, "These are deliberate choices conveying certain complex social interactions, especially by young people." My answer completely disagrees. Hammerite's answer repeats the selected answer's claim: "typing in all lower case is the ordinary way to communicate ... Typing with completely standard conventions ... mark the user as an outsider ... a deliberate stylistic choice". Traktor's answer claims: "Cell/Smart Phones" (which my answer disagrees with—see 2nd bullet point above). | |
| Nov 26 at 22:23 | comment | added | jsw29 | @Mari-LouA, yes, while the considerations of time-saving and convenience explain why a practice of not shifting between upper- and lowercase got established, one way still wonder why texting and similar forms of communication, in this respect, do not follow the precedent of telegrams in using only the uppercase (given that text-messages have a lot in common with telegrams). | |
| Nov 26 at 21:09 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | You could argue the caps lock key makes writing in uppercase equally as fast as lowercase. Many believe it makes their message more "audible" :P | |
| Nov 26 at 17:46 | comment | added | Corrodias | @jsw29 If nothing else, it is more succinct and explains why people type that way (in most cases), whereas tchrist's answer explains - very thoroughly - that people type that way but doesn't get much into why. | |
| Nov 26 at 16:43 | comment | added | jsw29 | What exactly does this answer add to what has already been posted on this page? | |
| Nov 26 at 15:37 | comment | added | equin0x80 | Yes, it's been common in casual netspeak (conversation typed on the Internet) for many decades. In a keynote speech to the IATEFL Annual Conference (March 2001), the linguist David Crystal remarked: "The lower-case default mentality means that any use of capitalization is a strongly marked form of communication. Messages wholly in capitals are considered to be "shouting", and usually avoided; words in capitals add extra emphasis (with asterisks and spacing also available)." | |
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| S Nov 26 at 2:00 | history | answered | user103496 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |