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>>Philpa+(OP)
Do other people react as strongly as I did to the lack of capitalisation at the start of sentences? The post is generally "well" written with good grammar and punctuation so I find it strange - it feels like a style choice. But the style choice just instinctively makes part of my brain feel like it's written by a child.

>>rkange+m5
Yes, not using the Shift key has become somewhat of a modern disease. If nothing else, it's a lack of courtesy to the reader. I despise it.

>>layer8+ib
This was the big realization to me why spelling, grammar, etc are important. It’s not that people can’t understand various modifications and incorrect writing, it’s that it is harder for them, so you’re basically asking your readers to give more of their time to save you a bit of yours.

And it’s especially bad in a blog or similar, where there is one writer and multiple readers. I spent maybe a few seconds on this post, but it will be read five, ten, fifty times. If I wrote the whole thing in text-message shorthand, it’d be stealing time from each of those readers.

It also helps people who do not have English as their first language if you avoid abbreviations and incorrect usage.