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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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there is a more consistent alternative that makes exact same sound.

it's also already established and everyone will understand it.

capital letters make string parsing slightly more pain too.

on the topic of computers, systems with case-sensitive names just get confusing when capitals are involved.

meanwhile systems without it just make capital more unnecesary.

camelCase is the only practical situation to capital letters and most of the population won't ever use that.

useless

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[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

If nothing else, not capitalizing first letters and proper nouns will just look weird to many readers. If there's no capitalization in a sentence, I'm inclined to assume the writer accidentally mistyped an incomplete sentence or phrase. Not capitalizing proper nouns will create significant confusion since some proper nouns are also general terms.

"after friday, land is out."

Is that a reference to land as in earth or is it a reference to someone whose last name is Land?

Making communication more difficult by requiring your reader to spend more effort to parse your intended message might not be a good idea.