Here’s a sort-of-comprehensive list of all the reasons we type in lowercase
Photo: NY Media The way we type can often feel like adding flair to a school uniform. There’s only so much we can do, but there’s also a lot we can do. We can add emojis and acronyms, use inventive punctuation, type like thiiiiis, and choose lowercase in instances that traditionally call for uppercase. The title and track list on Ariana Grande’s latest album, for instance — “thank u, next” — are all in lowercase, and so are her Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Sometimes I tweet in lowercase in an attempt to sound funny. A friend of mine emails exclusively in lowercase, and getting them feels like hearing her actual voice. A woman I know recently apologized to me for sending an email all in lowercase, which was touching and seemed unnecessary, but since we didn’t know each other well, it also felt like a complicated compliment .
Is it cool to type in lowercase? Is it lame? Does it all depend? While typing in lowercase seems simple — it’s casual, it’s easy — it signals an array of sophisticated/nuanced approaches. You can wear lowercase like a costume. It can be evil, it can be gentle. It can be light, it can be dark. And so, here’s a sort-of-comprehensive list of all the reasons we type in lowercase, specifically in email and DMs.Typing in lowercase signals familiarity.
This is true about E.E. Cummings, and while confirming it, I enjoyed this fact: One Cummings biography included a preface from a critic who stated with certainty that Cummings had legally changed his name to lowercase letters. When Cummings’s widow read this, she wrote a letter to the author, saying: “You should not have allowed [the critic] to make such a stupid & childish statement about Cummings & his signature.
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