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185 points gregsadetsky | 3 comments | 21 May 25 22:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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missedthecue ◴[22 May 25 01:04 UTC] No.44057775[source]▶
Why is the new style to avoid capitalization when writing? I see it everywhere now. I can only imagine the annoyance of fighting autocorrect just to format your content like this.
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alabastervlog ◴[22 May 25 01:41 UTC] No.44057956[source]▶
Kids doing weird shit to stand out, like every generation.

It makes reading harder, and with modern tools it certainly isn't any easier to write—with both those things working against it I doubt it'll stick around.

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1. MalbertKerman ◴[22 May 25 02:08 UTC] No.44058096[source]▶
Somebody just discovered E. E. Cummings and thought "I'm gonna be original just like that guy!"
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2. amanaplanacanal ◴[22 May 25 02:55 UTC] No.44058335[source]▶
I did that in grade school. The teacher wasn't impressed.
3. EvanAnderson ◴[22 May 25 05:32 UTC] No.44059047[source]▶
Years ago I made a "poetry generator" web app stylized like a piece of music synthesizer gear (an "Angst Modulator"). In the "filters" section I had an "ee cummings" filter that removed punctuation and made everything lower case.

(All the silly thing did was chain together stanzas randomly based on subjective "scores" I'd given to each stanza and the position of the "knobs" the user set for various "feelings". It was a fun gimmick 30 years ago. God. I'm old...)