Use the Bloody Shift Key!
I'm seeing a growing number of personal blogs that don't use upper case letters and for some reason it really irks me.
One of my favourite ways to discover new and interesting personal blogs is on the Bear Blog discovery feed but there’s a trend I’ve noticed recently where a number of sites on Bear simply don’t use uppercase letters. Like, at all.
Now, I’m no grammar gremlin - goodness knows that my own grammar is far from perfect, and I have absolutely no problem if there’s an errant comma here and there in one’s writing. I could even forgive you if you were one of those lunatics that does CAPS ON types uppercase letter CAPS OFF. At least you’re using uppercase. But to remove all uppercase letters with reckless abandon? Nope. Absolutely not.
The weird thing is, I don’t see this anywhere else. It’s literally just on the Bear Blog Discovery feed. I have a lifetime account on Bear Blog, so I know that Herman doesn’t require his members to hand in their shift key when they sign up. So what’s it all about? Does anyone know?
The irony is that pretty much all of the posts I see do contain other punctuation. It’s just the humble uppercase letter that has had the chop.
I’m not going to link to specific blogs/posts here, but if you go check out the Bear Blog discovery feed you will likely see a handful of posts with no uppercase letters; a pattern which often infects the entire post, unfortunately. As I write this, 6 of the 20 posts on the front page of Discover are lowercase.
Personally, I can’t abide it. When I come across one of these posts, even if the title sounds genuinely interesting, I just can’t bring myself to read the content. Instead, I end up focusing on the obvious lack of uppercase letters. I know I’m missing out on interesting posts because of this, and that makes me sad.
Please, for the love of all that’s UPPERCASE and holy, stop doing it. ❤
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