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 ...
President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday on Twitter about his ability to write. Specifically, he defended his seemingly random use of capitalization. He said he uppercases certain words for “emphasis” — ...
More than one-third of the world’s population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms. In these writing systems, capitalization is the use of an uppercase form ...
Capital letters and capitalization are aspects of language that are virtually invisible—except when our expectations about their use are violated in some way. Then they become almost impossible to ...
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 ...