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Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by Terretta on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @10:10AM (#1716153)
Coherent, yes. And so busy, there's no time for the shift key.

I think this came in vogue among the tech affluent during the era of Crackberry supremacy -- easier to just thumb in all lowercase, and a significant portion of communication done from that device made staccato lowercase brevity socially acceptable.

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Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by endtime on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @11:51AM (#1716523)
What about the constant changes in font style and color? Pretty sure that took more effort than hitting the shift key would have.
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Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by Terretta on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @02:48PM (#1717120)
Didn't mean this particular piece.

I was referring to the style of all lowercase, and to when I started noticing business people stop using initial caps. I used to catch myself doing it too after using a Sidekick and Moto Q for email on the go; still happens sometimes.

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Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by jaybol on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @05:29PM (#1717598)
who doesn't want to be like ee cummings
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Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by alanh on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @02:11PM (#1717005)
It looks like an import from MS Word to me.
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Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by raintrees on Thursday September 23, 2010 @01:56AM (#1718741)
Not enough redundant font tags...
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Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by BrandonM on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @10:39AM (#1716271)
BlackBerries automatically capitalize the first letter after a period, so that theory doesn't really hold.
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Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by jeebusroxors on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @11:10AM (#1716370)
But you type in all lowercase (correct?), so typing:

the quick brown fox...

would turn into

The quick brown fox...

which would not translate to the PC. It would just stay lowercase.

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Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by BrandonM on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @12:46PM (#1716721)
Are you really comparing typing on a PC keyboard to typing on a BlackBerry? My thumbs can only "type" so fast, but sitting at a keyboard I'm somewhere around 100 wpm. It feels like two completely different activities. At a keyboard, capitalization happens automatically without me even thinking about it.

It's not a matter of bad habit, it's a conscious choice. When I'm IM'ing with friends, I typically type all lowercase (but with good spelling and punctuation) because it's what they do and it seems less formal. When I'm typing an email or an HN comment, the capitalization just happens.

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Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by joshu on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @01:11PM (#1716795)
They also capitalize if you hold the key down briefly.

... I miss my blackberry.

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