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Re:Sam Altman tweet after being fired by kredd on Friday November 17, 2023 @06:11PM (#38311964)
He’s not exactly in the age group, but quite a lot of young people have auto-capitalization disabled on their phone. Basically aesthetics.

At the end of the day, as time goes on, the methods of communications change as well. It does not exactly correlate one’s intelligence, intent, societal status or whatsoever. Prevalent use of emojis would be the simplest example.

Re:Sam Altman tweet after being fired by zuramai on Friday November 17, 2023 @06:45PM (#38312407)
How could disabling auto-capitalization influence aesthetics?
Re:Sam Altman tweet after being fired by ra0x3 on Friday November 17, 2023 @06:52PM (#38312486)
i’ll bite.

it might sound dumb to you, but not capitalizing sentences properly amongst certain groups effectively means you’re not concerned with the optics of being viewed as someone who “doesn’t know grammar”.

it sort’ve displays a certain “I know proper grammar but I don’t really care to prove it to you”.

edit: and as others mention, it can be seen as less formal and friendly as well

don’t shoot the messenger :)

Re:Sam Altman tweet after being fired by nikodotio on Friday November 17, 2023 @07:24PM (#38312905)
personally i just find this easier to read. capitalization breaks flow and parsing for me.
Re:Sam Altman tweet after being fired by dsgnr on Friday November 17, 2023 @07:48PM (#38313228)
also: mobile autocorrect is garbage on so many devices its better to just turn it off. no one has time to shift case on mobile manually.
Re:Sam Altman tweet after being fired by jondwillis on Friday November 17, 2023 @08:31PM (#38313698)
i turned it off on a whim, but this is the reason why i keep it off.
Re:Sam Altman tweet after being fired by throw0101b on Friday November 17, 2023 @08:47PM (#38313862)
> capitalization breaks flow and parsing for me.

It can also break meaning though. Try de-capitalizing:

* I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse.

Re:Sam Altman tweet after being fired by syndacks on Friday November 17, 2023 @06:56PM (#38312532)
less is more and tone is everything