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Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by stronglikedan on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:00AM (#40536062)
Capitalization isn't part of grammar. Those examples are different strings of characters altogether.
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Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by otteromkram on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:52AM (#40536704)
I'll augment your statement by noting that punctuation is also not part of grammar.
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Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by selenography on Friday May 31, 2024 @01:22PM (#40537847)
Another classic counterexample: "This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand, and God." "This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God."
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Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by selenography on Friday May 31, 2024 @01:06PM (#40537618)
The classic, if crude, counterexample: "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse."

(The uncapitalized version doesn't just have different semantics; it has a completely different parse-tree!)

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