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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by PreInternet01 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:28AM (#41246488)
wHaT's uP With the cApiTaLizAtioN iN this TitLe?

I've spent, like, several minutes of my life trying to figure this out, and... came up blank?

The title is not copied from the PDF, where such issues would be rare but not unimaginable. I also couldn't find any articles linking to this PDF with this particular title.

So... a misfiring accessibility solution? Solar rays directly going for the Shift key?

(P.S. Yeah, I know "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." -- but this seems sort-of uncommon?)

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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by AdmiralAsshat on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:35AM (#41246583)
I was perplexed as well. I even tried counting the randomly capitalized letters to see if it spelled out a secret message or something...but unless someone can tell me what 'TSGMUFLCSDVPVD' means, I think it might be a red herring.
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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by jonhohle on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:58AM (#41246864)
Sorry, this was a mobile autocorrect issue I didn’t notice while submitting. I took the title from the press release but had to rearrange some things to fit and apparently iOS thought it should capitalize. The title came from the AG’s office[0], but I wanted to link directly to the filing.

0 - https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-...

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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by PreInternet01 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @11:03AM (#41246935)
Thanks for sharing the exact workflow, and sorry for potentially derailing the discussion on this! (For the record, I upvoted all substantial comments, and truly enjoyed my comment going from +4 to -2 and back again...).

I've never had iOS (either the Cisco or the Apple variant) randomly apply CamelCaps, though. One more thing to look out for in the future :)

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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by squirtle24 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:40AM (#41246651)
Best I could come up with was that they're trying to make a mockery of Texas's position on the case. But the odd capitalization isn't frequent enough to make it obvious, so I too wasted minutes of my life looking for some kind of pattern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_caps

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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by perihelions on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:45AM (#41246710)
Malfunctioning speech-to-text tooling? Note the errant capitalization falls on start-of-syllable boundaries.

Alternatively, could be an artifact of an LLM tooling, where those boundaries reflect token boundaries.

    Unlaw­ / Ful­ / Ly
    Dri­ / Vers
    Pri­ / Vate
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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by PreInternet01 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:50AM (#41246777)
Well, I'm not a native English speaker, but I'm pretty sure that in "UnlawFulLy" the capitals don't represent pronunciation stress points? Those would look more like "uNlawfullY", right?
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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by perihelions on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:57AM (#41246859)
Yes, but stress aside, the syllables still divide as "un-law-ful-ly". (At least I believe so and Claude also agrees; that's a quorum).
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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by seanw444 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:39AM (#41246640)
At first I thought it was sarcasm-case. But no, doesn't seem like that either.
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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by voidUpdate on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:32AM (#41246545)
I spent a few minutes looking at it and came up blank as well :/
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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by henning on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:39AM (#41246637)
I cracked the code, it's an anagram for "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".
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Re:Texas Sues GM for Unlaw­Ful­Ly Collecting and Selling Dri... by CoastalCoder on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:43AM (#41246694)
The hint is that the title makes you want to shoot your eye out.
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