The New Lowercase Trend

[Dan_Wellock]

I have been noticing on social media, text messages, and even grocery stores the new lowercase trend. As a preference setting, users of smartphones can disable automatic capitalization for proper nouns, “I”, and the beginning of sentences. When I see it, it drives me crazy! It seems like even the most fundamental and simple forms of grammar are fading away. I asked a friend of mine why she enjoys having the lowercase setting. Her reply was “it looks better, and I like it.” I personally do not understand how a grammatical mistake can “look better,” but that is simply my opinion. What is yours?

[Nathan Berner]

i (sorry!) actually like it. I think that is fits well with texting. I usually don't want the pressure of thinking about what I have to capitalize when I'm writing out a text message, so I just don't capitalize. The only exception is if I am talking about someone's name.

[Nikolas Farmakis]

I agree with you on that. People are throwing away basic grammar rules for the sake of convenience. It is really silly.

[Gravy]

I don't think much of it in informal use, to each their own. However, if I ever start seeing it in books (outside of stylization of informal dialogue, i.e. texts/emails/etc.), my head may explode.

[Stephanie Runyon]

I agree that the eta of text messaging has given rise to laziness in writing. "OMG, LOL and FR" drive me insane and cryptic messaging like that often leave me baffled. I prefer stating messages in full words and sentences. I was taught that at the beginning of a sentence that you capitalize the first word.

[InStoree]

I hope this trend won't last long. I noticed that people don't give much importance to grammar, especially in the case of a text or a post on social media. The most common excuse I heard was based on time - it saves time. Personally, I care more about the quality of the text than the time used for an extra click.

Regarding this setting, I think I will wait for one (if it doesn't exist already) that will eliminate the space between words, punctuation, and capitalization - becauseibelieveintheequalityofthelettersandalsoithinkitlooksbetterandsimpler