The distinction doesn’t even translate to verbal communication and many languages are perfectly fine without cases. It is meaningless. Stop it!

  • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I appreciate the perspective, and I fully realize this hill I am dying on is not going to win hearts and minds. But you have to admit these problems have been solved in other ways without the extravagance of two mashed up writing systems. Even some forms of English like Morse code and ASL don’t bother with it (or can’t effectively bother with it) and it is fine. I think you are correct when you say vanity is the reason the convention now clings along.

    Bonus thought: Punctuation at the beginning of a sentence like in Spanish should be codified across the globe.

      • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        I realize I am nowhere near influential enough. I am comfortable dying right here and now among all you lovely people.

          • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            12·
            2 days ago

            By current conventions, one of those will be interpreted as aggressive and the other submissive, or unprofessional or something (at least within many common contexts).

            I am that judgy too. For example, I just had an email with someone I work for this week and she used the word breech (which means poo) instead of breach (as in a contractual breach). And I took the rest of the day off to giggle.

            • TauZero@mander.xyzEnglish
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              2 days ago

              one of those will be interpreted as aggressive and the other submissive

              No choice then. Odd letters of the alphabet gets capitalized, even letters get downcased. That way you need to learn only one glyph for each still, but nobody will interpret you as BDSM.

    • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      I also feel compelled to mention secure passwords conventionally involve upper and lower cases, but still, this problem can be resolved in other ways. A lot of phones use drawing lines on a grid as authentication. Make your password a combination of Korean and Hindi characters. Make your password a string of emojis.

      Edit: and yes, I am more in favour of emojis being incorporated into written language than hoity-toity when you call me “the queen”, you had better call me “the Queen” nonsense. Fuck outta here with that bourgeois gatekeeping.