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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How I wish for the day English decides to upend everything and go phonetic with a truncated alphabet and word modernization.

Also, drop the whole uppercase and lowercase nonsense. Just pick one!

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

THE QUIET UPSETS SLANESH

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, I like the cases if only to make scanning for proper nouns easier. The capital letters stick out. Maybe keep caps only for proper nouns.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was having this debate a week ago when dealing with those strange proper noun cases like departments in an organization. They're sorta proper nouns, but then when generalized it goes back lowercase. Security Department vs security escorted them out of the building.

Having cursive, lower, and upper cases is really dumb though.

We could just add a new letter to denote a proper noun? Kick it up to modern relevancy with the @ or #? Lol.

MAYBE DO IT SPANISH STYLE AND SURROUND IT? @JOHN SMITH #JOHN SMITH#

No more having to use shift regularly.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

There's definitely some weirdness in that. I feel like it's an edge case, though, and could just say to either refer to them as the full Security Department, or capitalize Security as well. Or go the German route and just capitalize all nouns, they're usually the most important part of a written sentence anyway.

Thinking about it further, there are a few use cases for caps in readability. Abbreviated, for example, so they're not interpreted as a word. I think the only one I really struggle with WRT capitalization is the arbitrary capitalization of beginning words.