@gnomekat @NicksWorld capitalisation feels weirdly formal while nocaps is just "i am typing this as quickly as i can"

also it lets me sidestep my annoyance with english capitalisation rules, coming from german (proper nouns are an incredibly nebulous, subjective and context-dependent concept. e.g. some people refer to any fancy lighter as a zippo. does that mean i can not capitalise it if im not specifically referring to a zippo brand zippo? thats fucking silly who thought of this. either im capitalising all nouns or im capitalising none of them and ive made my choice

also i is a pronoun it should NOT be capitalised. thats stupid too who thought of this crap. also in handwriting i use cursive and that lets me write entire words in one go with every letter leading into the next and capital letters would interrupt that. i should really learn shorthand though)

@coolbean @gnomekat I also notice, and its not just from you but I see a lack of aposterphy. I'm guessing its for the same reasons? I rarely write shorthand.

@NicksWorld @gnomekat i generally try to use apostrophes (but tend to forget mainly in contractions) so yea, not sure

im honestly not sure why that one happens. i want to blame smartphone keyboards where you have to press and hold comma to access them but honestly modern autocorrect/predictive text should correct for that so i'm honestly unsure why this is still a thing apart from... forgetting

i at least try to consistently use it when dealing with possessives since if one ends in s (say because its plural, a car's many cars') the spot of the apostrophe changes meaning it has some semantic meaning

this post has made me very self conscious about forgetting the apostrophe in "i'm" but at this point its too late. im counting 4 occurences in this post alone and i doubt i spotted them all

@NicksWorld @gnomekat admittedly, i turned off all autocorrect and predictive text years ago, back when it was still bad and continue to refuse to use it. it might just be people in the same position

@NicksWorld @gnomekat i mean who can deny that many of our common contractions have essentially become their own words with their own grammar rules by now making the apostrophe somewhat redundant

"why don't you get me a cup of tea" is perfectly normal whereas "why do not you get me a cup of tea" makes me sound like fucking gollum