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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by mathieuh on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:48PM (#33257382)
Do people actually send messages to each other like that? I modified all the precomposed replies on my watch to remove capitals and punctuation. Using capitals and punctuation raises the register of the message for me, and 99% of the time if I’m sending a text it’s to friends or family.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by odysseus on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:50PM (#33257397)
What does "raises the register" in this context mean?
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by rattus_rattus on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:56PM (#33257444)
It means the formality level of text. I think that person was saying that within their family chats, they perceive that using capitals and punctuation makes the messages feel unnecessarily/inappropriately formal.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by mathieuh on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:02AM (#33257483)
Yes exactly.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by dopidopHN on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:56PM (#33257437)
Register of speak I suppose ? Formal, vulgar, technical, casual... I might be wrong English is not my first language. But that would fits nicely. I understand that as going from casual to formal, for instance.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by bombcar on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:25AM (#33261781)
“Raise the bar” would be the colloquially used term around here.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by Lio on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:45AM (#33258212)
I normally wouldn’t say anything but since it’s the topic of conversation, I hate that. I see lowercase and deliberate no punctuation as as passive aggression.

Depends on your circle of friends I guess.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by mathieuh on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:36AM (#33258496)
I think it's not unreasonable to expect there to be written dialects as well as spoken ones. A comparatively huge amount of a person's communication is written these days, where previously it would have been face-to-face or with a phone call.

The general spoken register where I live skews informal, so I assume this has carried over to written communication. Using capitals and punctuation comes across to me as stilted and like an email or a letter rather than a text message.

It's an interesting subject definitely

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by andrekandre on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:42AM (#33262007) 

  >  I see lowercase and deliberate no punctuation as passive aggression.
interesting, why does it seem as passive aggression?

for me upper/lowercase just feels redundant and its simpler for me, but i guess some people can see it as annoying...

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by jbverschoor on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:19AM (#33261026)
If you're in the car, it's nice, but it simply doesn't work.. So what d you do? You first struggle 2 minutes with the phone, and fixing all the mess it made, and then just pick up the phone and quickly type a message in 10 seconds. With or without autofrustrate
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