Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like
by zachsnow on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @12:20AM
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Random capitalization is like scare quotes -- it distracts from the message and focuses the reader on whatever underlying motive or mindset the writer might have.
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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like
by positron4 on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @12:51AM
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I did not randomly capitalize. The capitalization has been made for a reason.
Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like
by tbrownaw on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:01AM
(#10619361)
Pedantry is an excellent way to deliberately miss the point.
Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like
by positron4 on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:25AM
(#10619570)
Language is a tool to be used effectively. The implications of a particular choice of words (or the capitalizations thereof) might make people uncomfortable. But conciseness is a virtue of its own.
Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like
by gnaritas on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @10:15AM
(#10621141)
> Language is a tool to be used effectively.
Which you are failing to do, thus the meta-discussion about your weird capitalization. Were your choices effective, no one would be mentioning it.
Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like
by gnaritas on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:05AM
(#10619369)
And what reason is there to capitalize all those seemingly random words? It is quite annoying to the reader, they are not proper nouns and have no reason to be capitalized.
Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like
by positron4 on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:58AM
(#10619506)
Look carefully at my comment. Pick out the words that I have capitalized. There is nothing random about them.
Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like
by polymatter on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @03:46AM
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Programmers, accountants, owner, medieval and apprentices are all capitalized where I would leave them uncapitalized. It feels random to me. I put it down to a different writing style.