Re:I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t e...
by dj_mc_merlin on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:10PM
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Genuine question, why is your comment capitalized like this? I assume english is your first language since it seems naturally written, and it's likely not dictated because no program would correctly write "GetArtemis". So how did it end up like that? Weird autocorrect?
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Re:I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t e...
by throwvid19 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:09AM
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The conspiracy theorist in me says it's a way of signaling via the (bunk) neurolinguistic programming philosophy, which suggests that emphasizing certain words will evoke a desirable response. (Personal words like "you" and "your", as well as positive words like "give".)
The theologian in me says this person writes about/to god frequently and thus treats words like "you" as a capitalized proper noun so frequently that it's autocorrected.
The rationalist in me says English is not their first language and spends most of their time writing in their native language which may include different noun forms and so is habitual. And given some spacing and punctuation oddities, possibly an older person.
My money is on the rational explanation.
Re:I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t e...
by solarkraft on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:39AM
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Hmm, in formal German "you"s can be capitalized. The "give" could just be noise.