Lecturers in the journalism department at Leeds Trinity University in the United Kingdom were warned not to use all caps when communicating with students because it might make them too scared to do ...
Gen Z is canceling capital letters—should you join them or fight in grammar's last stand? As a mother of four, I’ve learned to just nod and pretend I understand Gen Z slang—no cap, frfr. So when they ...
In September 2021, a professor at the Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada announced that she would be rendering all text on the website of the office of indigenization and ...
As a mother of four, I’ve learned to just nod and pretend I understand Gen Z slang—no cap, frfr. So when they stopped using capital letters and punctuation, I shrugged and figured it was another ...
Dear Miss Manners: I friended an old classmate on social media. We weren’t close in school, but time passes, nostalgia sets in, and sometimes you like to reconnect. This girl was pleasant as a child, ...
Lecturers at a Leeds university have been urged to stop using capital letters in their classwork instructions to avoid upsetting anxious students. Staff in the journalism department of Leeds Trinity ...
This generational texting habit might be worse than using capital letters. The “Boomer ellipses,” denoted by three or more dots or “suspension points” between thoughts, is unbearable to Gen Zers.
A clever use of capital letters could be an easy way to flummox artificial intelligences like ChatGPT, letting people distinguish them from humans in conversation. The idea is reminiscent of the ...