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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

oh totally forgot to add this to all my twitter guides but it's actually really important: write in lowercase

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rob hardy

@ungatedcreative

· Dec 28, 2021

i wrote a thing it's about how writing in lowercase has done magical, inexplicable things for my creative output ungated.media/article/lowerc

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11:09 PM · Dec 28, 2021Twitter Web App

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o dam

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Capitalize start of sentences but no punctuation on last sentence

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Dec 29, 2021

ah shit i forgot about the no punctuation on the last sentence too, that's important. hmm. people will probably pick it up once they try lowercase hopefully

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it's the only way

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i wonder if it matters that we grew up on instant messaging that was lowercase do you think zoomers who have always chatted on phones w autocorrect have similar associations with first letter capital bc that's in all their casual chats by default?

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Dec 29, 2021

i have no idea! i forget who the zoomers are around here but we could ask them

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i feel like this is the day i finally learn to write for the internet. far too used to writing with caps, feels so strange to be writing like this, but can see it being freeing when i'm used to it

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people should stop telling everyone to do something just because it worked for them.