Why don’t Lemmings capitalize the beginning of each letter in their title for their posts?

zephyr , 9 months ago

Lemmy apps are so good that everyone is creating content from their phones

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RightHandOfIkaros , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I dont think there is any rule or requirement to follow proper grammar on Lemmy, or the internet for that matter. It would be nice, but is not likely to happen.

TheDoctorDonna , 10 months ago

How is language supposed to evolve if we just stick to what’s “proper” all the time. As long as it makes sense and conveys the message well, what is the difference?

space_frog , 10 months ago

there is a strong mistrust of capitalism here on lemmy. don’t let big letter dictate how you type.

power to the little letters!

wmrch , 10 months ago

let’sSwitch overTo camelCase!

PinkPanther , 10 months ago

youreDoingItWrongItsWrittenWithoutAnySpacesJustLikeImDoingRightNowGodDammitIHateThis!

sour , 10 months ago

am like lowercase

FredericChopin_ , 10 months ago

I heard that was a young person trend?

sour , 10 months ago

am young person also ._.

SaveComengs , 10 months ago

it’s just a vibe we like

things like lowercase i and not having periods contribute to that vibe as well

FredericChopin_ , 10 months ago

The lowercase i looks better imo.

DirigibleProtein , 10 months ago

Because People Often Don’t Know How To Write A Concise Succinct Title And It’s Annoying To Read A Long Badly Written Title In Title Case

TheInsane42 , 10 months ago

Or even worse, a capital to start each word.

At least it’s not all uppercase.

FredericChopin_ , 10 months ago

You’re not wrong, I was somewhat put off reading that. I can’t quite put it in to words but it felt different.

PinkPanther , 10 months ago

I hate this comment so much!

RightHandOfIkaros , 10 months ago

why Does it matter?

ProvokedGamer OP , 10 months ago

It doesn’t really matter. I was curious more than anything.

CaptObvious , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Title case isn’t universal. If someone learned a different style in school or college, say APA, titles may actually take sentence case.

keeb420 , 10 months ago

Or some of us are just lazy.

Nemo , 10 months ago

Because they’re more like headlines than book titles.

Sylver , 10 months ago

Book title capitalization should be used when the title is used as a title… which actually doesn’t happen all the time.

Your title right now is more deserving of a grammatically correct sentence, rather than a book title

s38b35M5 , 10 months ago

My feed is only posts with capitalized titles

ProvokedGamer OP , 10 months ago

For me it’s the opposite. Weird.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/1a57c205-43bd-4fd3-812d-9a6013131774.png

Izzgo , 10 months ago

A real title, one that you would typically capitalize the first letter of each word, does not have to be a sentence and often isn't. But many "titles" on forums like this are really sentences which capture the whole essence of what's being asked or stated, like your "title" does. As I browsed my "front page" (for lack of a better term) just now, indeed I found that titles followed that rule.

ProvokedGamer OP , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Oh, so they’re basically just used as summary lines instead of titles?

Izzgo , 10 months ago

Exactly. Often the title is longer than the text of the post, and may even just say "title".

Pat , 10 months ago

My guess is the more casual nature of the communication going on. It's less formal than putting in the effort of creating a published work like an article or video. Here you can just put the words in a box and hit go, your content is on the internet. Articles and videos require more time and effort to put together, so it would make sense to me for those to appear more formal, even if the content isn't the most serious.

Blaze , 10 months ago

Probably culture dependent. A lot of people are not native English speakers