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Why are people now Writing like This with Semi-Randomly capitalized Letters?
I thought it was Kulak trying to appeal to a boomer audience, who I associate with this kind of thing. I thought Kulak also had some kind of issue with typing, he was using text to speech or something which might cause this issue.
But OSINTDefender is also doing it on twitter: https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1713559468913340546
Does anyone have an explanation or theory? I personally really dislike it, it's confusing and unnecessary since it doesn't seem to have any rhetorical function either. You can play games with capitalizing or decapitalizing words as some US newspapers do, capitalizing black but not white. But that's not what's happening here, there's no clear rule.
I used to work with a girl who wrote like this. We had to co-write reports once a month, and she was constantly talking about how "the Government decisions have made a major impact on the Company's ability to do business" or whatever. I was so relieved when she left the company and I could write the reports properly.
There's a certain species of midwit who seems to think that any Noun or Adjective which seems Important in some way must be capitalised.
Criticised in one of my favourite books How Not to Write a Novel (which was published in 2008, so obviously it was fairly common in unpublished fiction even then):
Great book. I remember liking it because however bad my writing might be, at least I don't write like that.
JK Rowling's capitalizations are particularly egregious (there used to be a Potterwords blog as an aid to fan fiction writers, because the things that were and were not capitalized in the Potterverse were so inconsistent).
Not even the most glaring of all of Rowling's stylistic quirks.
That one I chalk up to the fact that she's a fan of 19th and early 20th century British literature.
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