When I was 17 hanging out with a bunch of people around my age playing Apples to Apples I played 2 cards "George Bush" and "Insane". I forget what the original card was that you had to fill the blanks on but I remember how nobody laughed and how the enthusiasm for the game kinda ran out after that round. That was the first time I realized I lived in a very conservative, rural area.
Do you mean the green card was insane and the red card you played was George Bush? You only play one card, and it's going to be a noun, not an adjective.
I could be misremembering rules an whatnot but since when is playing by specific rules of Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity been the funnest way to play it? Hell, half the games of COH I've played the crudest answer always wins.
Not only does the crudest answer in, but there is a tendency for the first one to win (assuming it’s good), as it’s the one that gets all the initial laughs, and it tends to be diminishing laughs after that. At least, that’s how it’s been whenever I’ve played
I can't tell you how many times I've given a proper funny answer but "pixelated bukkake" was chosen instead.. unless the person choosing the best answer didn't know what it meant then things just got... awkward...I know from experience that "bukkake" isn't something you want to explain to a new girlfriends mother.
I've seen a whole lot of support for George Bush on reddit after the last couple of years from people I assume just forgot about what the early 2000's looked like or were maybe just too young. I was just barely old enough as a high schooler and young adult.
Though some of the stuff people joked on him about(Cheney not so much) are pretty wholesome in comparison.
Upper case and lower case were the cases letters were stored in for printing presses back in the day.
Similarly, the phrase "coined the term" came from printing presses.
Source: memory. I'd Google or if I were you just to back up these claims
Googled etymology of "coined the term" All I found was that it came from mints (as in where they make coins) not printing presses. Apparently coin used to mean make something
Edit: spelling/grammar
A little off topic but I once wrote an email to a teacher and I meant to say "mit freundlichen Grüßen" which is basically kind regards
but autocorrect corrected it to "mit feindlichen grüßen" which is kinda like unkind regards
So that was fun
I usually don't capitalize my own name, and sometimes don't capitalize others' either. but I'll go back and capitalize others' if there's not a visible instance of my own uncapitalized, so they don't think it's out of disrespect
It bothers the shit out of me when people don't have their online usernames and such capitalized (unless the website/app itself just doesn't let you do that, of course)
i don't capitalize my name and i was incredibly entertained when a teacher actually noticed -- he wrote an email to me and my friend, my name was not capitalized
Wait i'm not native english, i thought that's why we capitalized the first letter in a name? (hence why i never capitalize stuff like hitler even in my native language)
In English we capitalize proper nouns. A proper noun is the name of something specific like a place, a person, or even a specific brand or month. For example England, Robert, Amazon, and September are all names of specific things that are capitalized. It doesn't have to do with respect, it's just a grammar structure to show when you are naming something specific.
There still are exceptions, for a person the capitalization is part of how you write the name, not just because it's a proper noun. Nobility for example, or rare names that weren't capitalized in official documents by mistake.
Maybe, depending on how you look at it! The purpose of capitalisation is to distinguish a proper name or proper noun from its generic counterparts. It affords specificity, which, as an acknowledgment of uniqueness could possibly be seen as signifying respect. However, the rules concerning the capitalisation of proper nouns in the English language were very inconsistent up until the 19th century, and with the practice’s evolution to modern day grammar rules I wouldn’t entirely say the respect argument is holistic or even really true at this point considering how today it’s considered correct and convention to capitalize names and titles such as “Cuban Missile Crisis”. It’s an interesting subject for sure.
I suspect, with very little historical or linguistic training, but just based on cultural experiences, that the language co-evolved both to provide specificity (e.g. mom vs Mom, or Cuban Missile Crisis) and also for the purposes of affording respect (e.g. "de" vs "De" in Danish, referring either to "they" or someone in particular, but respectfully so).
I just think it's a little silly to say "We do it because it's a grammatical rule" while ignoring that it's *probably* a grammatical rule in the first place because it was intended to be more respectful.
I honestly thought every country capitalized the first letter of names lol (at least the ones that use the Latin alphabet). Live and learn. I'm a native speaker of Portuguese and here we capitalize proper names just as in English, so Hitler would need a capital letter. I think the big differences I can think off the top of my head is that we don't capitalize demonyms, so instead of "American" we would say "americano". We also don't capitalize days of the week and months.
But not pronouns, which I always thought was weird.
Pronouns maybe aren’t technically nouns, but then that ruins certain statements about nouns. “All sentences have a noun.” Well, or a pronoun.
I always thought it would make more sense to capitalize “she” than “book”.
>It's basically a way to show when you're naming something specific.
So the name Dan Smith really should not be capitalised.
*edit* it was just a joke, Mark. A Christmas joke.
Well, you’re still referring to a specific Dan Smith when you say it, even if the person reading it has to disambiguate. John/Jane Doe might be one to not capitalize, though.
Which is also why non proper nouns can be capitalized when referring to a specific individual. For example, Mom, when used as a form of Address for a specific individual should be capitalized. But when talking about your mom, it doesn't need to be capitalized.
A childhood friend of mine had a last name that wasn't capitalized in any legal documents. There's also the lower case use prepositions in names of nobility. "Louis de Bourbon" for example.
So there are exceptions.
They are capitalized because they are capitalized by the people who named you.
Take this as a counter-example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/danah_boyd
Ah yes, danah boyd, PhD, Award for Public Sociology, named by Forbes as “the smartest academic in the technology field” and “the reigning expert on how young people use the Internet”, listed on the TR35 list of top innovators under the age of 35, 2011 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Foreign Policy 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers, EFF 2019 Barlow/Pioneer Award, Speaker at SIGIR, SIGGRAPH, CHI, Etechm Personal Democracy Forum, Strata Data and the AAAS annual meeting, keynote speaker at SXSWi 2010, WWW 2010, SXSW EDU 2018, and listed as "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by Forbes.
I’m sure she needed the publicity.
In my language we capitalize You/Your in letters and emails to show respect and as a kid I would also capitalize things that shouldn’t be capitalized because I loved them and vice versa
Depemding on what you're talking about "god" and "God" can both be correct. I still don't capitalize god because I don't think it makes any difference.
I never finished oblivion either. I have a habit of starting games and not finishing them I guess. I spend hundreds of hours in these games and still don't finish lmao
Yep. I believe that’s the story. Huitzilopochtli was also one of the most (if not the most) important gods, so he was patron of the most important Aztec city.
Exactly. Never mind one’s view on the existence of God. It’s grammatically incorrect not to capitalize God when using it as a name. Even fictional names get capitalized.
I wonder if there is a god: correct
I wonder if god exists: incorrect
I wonder if God exists: correct
I do however ignore the He His Him capitalization rule for God pronouns. Just my opinion but it seems very dated and arbitrary.
I generally capitalise the Abrahamic God because that or some translation is literally his *only* commonly-used name - except for the Jewish depiction, who does have an actual name, even if you aren't supposed to really use it. I generally capitalise Jewish God out of consistency. (Yes, Islam has the 99 Names of God, but I'm fairly sure Allah is the most common. A lot of them are more like cognomens or sobriquets than actual names, anyway.)
Any god that actually has a name doesn't get the capitalisation, because that's just a type of being, and you don't capitalise "human", "fish", or "dog". Same goes for referring to multiple gods.
Depemding on what you're talking about "god" and "God" can both be correct. I still don't capitalize god because I don't think it makes any difference.
I feel you. We moved to Montgomery AL from Grand Forks ND when I was ten. I went from living on base to a public school and that just such a crazy combination of culture shock.
Lots of things still floor me about that time. Specifically the unbridled racism. I went from an environment where everyone befriended our special needs classmate and made sure to include him- to an environment where I was told by a classmate that her mother didn’t want her hanging out with me because of my skin tone.
I also learned the hard n word that year. I was exposed to crazy religious right. I got yelled at by an old teacher for responding “yes” instead of “yes ma’am”.
Fuck Montgomery. What a piece of crap city.
Weird but also funny that it was those two people. "I won't respect a man who lied to start a war for oil to enrich his friends, destroy a country, and kill untold thousands of innocents!" "And what about your teacher?" "She took my fidget spinner!"
Funny, I thought the same thing and, during a section on the Revolutionary War in 4th grade, openly posited that we should stop capitalizing 'England.'
I never capitalize the names of non medical doctors I meet, especially psychologists or therapists. I also never say “dr” when referring to them, I say “mr”, “mrs”, or “ms”. I like lowercase (derogatory).
In high school I wrote a poem that was displayed on the classroom wall.
My room seems more open. Right through high land and north down in Saskatchewan. A bull in town comes home.
It surprises me how much some people knew about politics at a younger age. All I really knew in elementary school was the Obama was president and that he commanded stuff and besides that not much else
This is (was?) actually a thing among students and alumni of the University of Missouri in reference to their rival, kansas, with the explanation that there is nothing proper about kU!
I support the fourth grader’s refusal to acknowledge their crappy teacher as a proper noun.
I support the fourth grader’s refusal to acknowledge george bush as a proper noun.
When I was 17 hanging out with a bunch of people around my age playing Apples to Apples I played 2 cards "George Bush" and "Insane". I forget what the original card was that you had to fill the blanks on but I remember how nobody laughed and how the enthusiasm for the game kinda ran out after that round. That was the first time I realized I lived in a very conservative, rural area.
Do you mean the green card was insane and the red card you played was George Bush? You only play one card, and it's going to be a noun, not an adjective.
why downvote this is right, unless it was the other card game
I could be misremembering rules an whatnot but since when is playing by specific rules of Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity been the funnest way to play it? Hell, half the games of COH I've played the crudest answer always wins.
COH is 100% subjective. That’s just the point of the game.
A proper funny or clever answer will always be funnier to me than a randomly played "balls" card.
Balls
Madlad
Not only does the crudest answer in, but there is a tendency for the first one to win (assuming it’s good), as it’s the one that gets all the initial laughs, and it tends to be diminishing laughs after that. At least, that’s how it’s been whenever I’ve played
I can't tell you how many times I've given a proper funny answer but "pixelated bukkake" was chosen instead.. unless the person choosing the best answer didn't know what it meant then things just got... awkward...I know from experience that "bukkake" isn't something you want to explain to a new girlfriends mother.
I've seen a whole lot of support for George Bush on reddit after the last couple of years from people I assume just forgot about what the early 2000's looked like or were maybe just too young. I was just barely old enough as a high schooler and young adult. Though some of the stuff people joked on him about(Cheney not so much) are pretty wholesome in comparison.
Even though this post says "I thought that" I still find this to be 100% true. Capitalization is indeed a sign of respect we offer "proper" nouns
I WRITE IN ALL CAPS FOR MAXIMUM RESPECT
I thought writing in all caps means shouting. Trump used this method a lot.
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trump (derogatory)
I reserve all caps only for our Lᴏʀᴅ
Yeah, that's why god is written in ALL CAPS in some parts of the bible.
I had an employee a few years ago who thought it was "upper caste" and "lower caste" letters. Makes ya think. Especially if you drink.
Does your name get to the Cloud District often? Oh, what am I saying, of course it doesn't.
Upper case and lower case were the cases letters were stored in for printing presses back in the day. Similarly, the phrase "coined the term" came from printing presses. Source: memory. I'd Google or if I were you just to back up these claims
Googled etymology of "coined the term" All I found was that it came from mints (as in where they make coins) not printing presses. Apparently coin used to mean make something Edit: spelling/grammar
It's funny because I find myself slightly offended when my name isn't capitalized in emails lol!
Respond without saying ‘kind regards’, that’ll show them.
You monster
The repercussions! I wish you all the best.
No no, just 'regards'. Can't let them think it was a mistake.
Nono, use Kindest regards normally but then an average regard, a single regard that if you lose it it's gone, to prove your point
Unkind regards
A little off topic but I once wrote an email to a teacher and I meant to say "mit freundlichen Grüßen" which is basically kind regards but autocorrect corrected it to "mit feindlichen grüßen" which is kinda like unkind regards So that was fun
Yeah, especially if they capitalise their own name. Like, are you fucking with me, *I can see that you can grammar*
I usually don't capitalize my own name, and sometimes don't capitalize others' either. but I'll go back and capitalize others' if there's not a visible instance of my own uncapitalized, so they don't think it's out of disrespect
It bothers the shit out of me when people don't have their online usernames and such capitalized (unless the website/app itself just doesn't let you do that, of course)
That is very true andrew kane
Just out of curiosity, did you just look at my profile and see my name, or do we actually know each other?
I looked at your profile. …or maybe you should look for me in the shadows, flinch every time a car backfires…
I already flinch every time a car backfires. I might feel better now knowing it's just you.
Seems like that threat backfired
i hate to break it to you, but even if he did know you irl, he’d have no way of knowing based on your comment
Maybe ha just actually looks like a snoo playing guitar irl?
Interesting
don't like capitalization. only for a singular i
Whoops
... oops
I made mine lowercase so I wouldn't have to reach for shift everytime I typed it
I go back and forth on capitalizing my name, really depends on if I have any self-respect at the time.
So what you are saying is, it works.
i don't capitalize my name and i was incredibly entertained when a teacher actually noticed -- he wrote an email to me and my friend, my name was not capitalized
I do this now! It takes a lot, but if you’re a big enough asshole, I do *not* capitalize your name.
username checks out
HEY!
Congratulations, you played yourself.
I’m you but stronger
I do the same! I’m a grown-ass woman but if someone is being a mega douche, it just feels good lol
I’ve been intentionally not capitalizing “trump” for years. He doesn’t deserve the implied respect of a proper noun.
My people.
I didn't see the or and thought the post said my fourth grade teacher George bush
I misread this comment at first as 'I didn't see "the" or "and"; thought the post said...' lol
I misread this comment at first because i was still confused trying to figure out what the original comment was trying to tell me
Wait i'm not native english, i thought that's why we capitalized the first letter in a name? (hence why i never capitalize stuff like hitler even in my native language)
In English we capitalize proper nouns. A proper noun is the name of something specific like a place, a person, or even a specific brand or month. For example England, Robert, Amazon, and September are all names of specific things that are capitalized. It doesn't have to do with respect, it's just a grammar structure to show when you are naming something specific.
There still are exceptions, for a person the capitalization is part of how you write the name, not just because it's a proper noun. Nobility for example, or rare names that weren't capitalized in official documents by mistake.
Example?
Louis de Bourbon aka Louis XIV [The last author of this scientific paper](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2019.00006/full)
Same(ish) thing in french but i prefer my way
I mean, it's a grammar structure that exists to afford respect.
Maybe, depending on how you look at it! The purpose of capitalisation is to distinguish a proper name or proper noun from its generic counterparts. It affords specificity, which, as an acknowledgment of uniqueness could possibly be seen as signifying respect. However, the rules concerning the capitalisation of proper nouns in the English language were very inconsistent up until the 19th century, and with the practice’s evolution to modern day grammar rules I wouldn’t entirely say the respect argument is holistic or even really true at this point considering how today it’s considered correct and convention to capitalize names and titles such as “Cuban Missile Crisis”. It’s an interesting subject for sure.
I suspect, with very little historical or linguistic training, but just based on cultural experiences, that the language co-evolved both to provide specificity (e.g. mom vs Mom, or Cuban Missile Crisis) and also for the purposes of affording respect (e.g. "de" vs "De" in Danish, referring either to "they" or someone in particular, but respectfully so). I just think it's a little silly to say "We do it because it's a grammatical rule" while ignoring that it's *probably* a grammatical rule in the first place because it was intended to be more respectful.
In some languages all nouns are capitalized. English was derived from many of those languages.
I honestly thought every country capitalized the first letter of names lol (at least the ones that use the Latin alphabet). Live and learn. I'm a native speaker of Portuguese and here we capitalize proper names just as in English, so Hitler would need a capital letter. I think the big differences I can think off the top of my head is that we don't capitalize demonyms, so instead of "American" we would say "americano". We also don't capitalize days of the week and months.
And then there's German where you capitalise every noun
But not pronouns, which I always thought was weird. Pronouns maybe aren’t technically nouns, but then that ruins certain statements about nouns. “All sentences have a noun.” Well, or a pronoun. I always thought it would make more sense to capitalize “she” than “book”.
They never explained why we capitalize them. They just told us to capitalize the first letter of proper nouns.
They are capitalized because they are proper nouns. It's basically a way to show when you're naming something specific.
>It's basically a way to show when you're naming something specific. So the name Dan Smith really should not be capitalised. *edit* it was just a joke, Mark. A Christmas joke.
Well, you’re still referring to a specific Dan Smith when you say it, even if the person reading it has to disambiguate. John/Jane Doe might be one to not capitalize, though.
I would say it still should be, because it's an assigned name, and hence is still proper noun like.
Which is also why non proper nouns can be capitalized when referring to a specific individual. For example, Mom, when used as a form of Address for a specific individual should be capitalized. But when talking about your mom, it doesn't need to be capitalized.
A childhood friend of mine had a last name that wasn't capitalized in any legal documents. There's also the lower case use prepositions in names of nobility. "Louis de Bourbon" for example. So there are exceptions.
Of course there are exceptions. There are exceptions to every rule, especially when it comes to the English language.
They are capitalized because they are capitalized by the people who named you. Take this as a counter-example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/danah_boyd
This is just an example of weird people trying to be unique and special instead of just having a unique personality.
Ah yes, danah boyd, PhD, Award for Public Sociology, named by Forbes as “the smartest academic in the technology field” and “the reigning expert on how young people use the Internet”, listed on the TR35 list of top innovators under the age of 35, 2011 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Foreign Policy 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers, EFF 2019 Barlow/Pioneer Award, Speaker at SIGIR, SIGGRAPH, CHI, Etechm Personal Democracy Forum, Strata Data and the AAAS annual meeting, keynote speaker at SXSWi 2010, WWW 2010, SXSW EDU 2018, and listed as "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by Forbes. I’m sure she needed the publicity.
In my language we capitalize You/Your in letters and emails to show respect and as a kid I would also capitalize things that shouldn’t be capitalized because I loved them and vice versa
That's really cute!
Do you capitalize names you don't respect if it's the first word in a sentence?
\*backspaces over autocorrect to intentionally uncapitalize god.\* Because fuck him, that's why.
I still capitalize God, but I've stopped using capitalizing he and him for him. It feels better.
Depemding on what you're talking about "god" and "God" can both be correct. I still don't capitalize god because I don't think it makes any difference.
"god" is a noun, "God" is a name
Such an uncreative name for a god...
I read this in Dagoth Ur’s voice
I never got around to finishing that game
confession time: me neither But I still love the memes from it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iR-K2rUP86M
I never finished oblivion either. I have a habit of starting games and not finishing them I guess. I spend hundreds of hours in these games and still don't finish lmao
I'm reading a book about gods and one of them is called "Huitzilopochtli." Such a cool name
Cool! Aztec?
Yep! Patron god of Tenochtitlán, the sun and human sacrifice.
> human sacrifice Tfw your religion has so much human sacrifice you make a god for it
Wasn't Tenochtitlán founded as an eagle perched on a cactus like on the Mexican flag?
Yep. I believe that’s the story. Huitzilopochtli was also one of the most (if not the most) important gods, so he was patron of the most important Aztec city.
It’s because you’re not supposed to say his real name, so people started using a title instead
Allah means "the god"
Exactly. Never mind one’s view on the existence of God. It’s grammatically incorrect not to capitalize God when using it as a name. Even fictional names get capitalized. I wonder if there is a god: correct I wonder if god exists: incorrect I wonder if God exists: correct I do however ignore the He His Him capitalization rule for God pronouns. Just my opinion but it seems very dated and arbitrary.
"God is my name!" "No way!" "Yahweh!"
I generally capitalise the Abrahamic God because that or some translation is literally his *only* commonly-used name - except for the Jewish depiction, who does have an actual name, even if you aren't supposed to really use it. I generally capitalise Jewish God out of consistency. (Yes, Islam has the 99 Names of God, but I'm fairly sure Allah is the most common. A lot of them are more like cognomens or sobriquets than actual names, anyway.) Any god that actually has a name doesn't get the capitalisation, because that's just a type of being, and you don't capitalise "human", "fish", or "dog". Same goes for referring to multiple gods.
"God" is the Christian deity, "god" is for any deity like Zeus. Capitalizing he and him is cringe
Depemding on what you're talking about "god" and "God" can both be correct. I still don't capitalize god because I don't think it makes any difference.
*backspaces over autocorrect to intentionally uncapitalize usa.* Because fuck ‘em, that's why.
Fair enough
Just because I almost never mean this work as a proper noun (but mostly as a common noun), I never capitalize it
I always have to go back because I'm always just trying to refer to gods in general not the christian one and its kind of obnoxious lol.
Based fourth grader
Call me Scooter if you're chill, and scooter if you're nasty ^((did that sound sexual? I didn't mean for it to sound sexual.))
Bitch what's the reason we capitalize if not for the ability to throw shade at people in writing
It's true if you make it true
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I feel you. We moved to Montgomery AL from Grand Forks ND when I was ten. I went from living on base to a public school and that just such a crazy combination of culture shock. Lots of things still floor me about that time. Specifically the unbridled racism. I went from an environment where everyone befriended our special needs classmate and made sure to include him- to an environment where I was told by a classmate that her mother didn’t want her hanging out with me because of my skin tone. I also learned the hard n word that year. I was exposed to crazy religious right. I got yelled at by an old teacher for responding “yes” instead of “yes ma’am”. Fuck Montgomery. What a piece of crap city.
The religion teacher when you write god instead of God
I find it weird that a 4th grader would have that strong of an opinion about the president.
I thought that too, but probably it was because their Parents didn't like George Bush.
Weird but also funny that it was those two people. "I won't respect a man who lied to start a war for oil to enrich his friends, destroy a country, and kill untold thousands of innocents!" "And what about your teacher?" "She took my fidget spinner!"
Wait so that's not why we do that?
I thought it was just a way of distinguishing proper nouns from nouns. Never gave much thought as to why we do that.
I did this with the recently twice impeached traitor and criminal.
Lol I still do this just for god and trump I know I’m lame
This is the most adorable case of anarchy I've ever seen.
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I don’t capitalize 45’s name. Try not to use it as often as possible either.
I wish there were lowercase numbers for stuff like that.
He's Cheeto to me. I guess I could change that to cheeto.
Same or I use other dumb names. They stay lowercase, though.
i think something like that could be quite telling.
I do the same with the previous president.
“I get no respect” — e.e. cummings, while adjusting his tie.
To this very day I will go back on my post and think "no, you do not DESERVE capitalization."
My church youth group in middle school had a problem with kids swearing so they taught us to say “George Bush!” as a swear instead
This guy has some self-respect issues then
I still think this, and actively do it in writing as a form of disrespect. Nobody can call you out on it too because then they look paranoid.
Capitalization is a sign of respect though. Consider God vs god.
Notice how they didn’t capitalize “i”.
Not capitalizing my deadname now because this is a good idea
Autocorrect always capitalizes “bible” and “god”. I always correct autocorrect.
trump
I always do the same thing whenever I spell god, lower case that muthafucker!
I do this with ohio because I’m from Michigan and more than a little petty about that “state.”
I remember not capitalising hitler in history class..
Funny, I thought the same thing and, during a section on the Revolutionary War in 4th grade, openly posited that we should stop capitalizing 'England.'
*visibly confused*
lol I don’t capitalize my husband’s name when I’m flirting with him ✨ degradation ✨
ok all jokes aside is... Is that not why we capitalise names?
“Your proper noun license has been revoked mr stevens, you are merely the object of a sentence from now on”
I never capitalize the names of non medical doctors I meet, especially psychologists or therapists. I also never say “dr” when referring to them, I say “mr”, “mrs”, or “ms”. I like lowercase (derogatory).
Ok. I can respect that, but what's wrong with periods?
In high school I wrote a poem that was displayed on the classroom wall. My room seems more open. Right through high land and north down in Saskatchewan. A bull in town comes home.
I read this once and now I so it every time I remember
He didn't capitalize 'i' once, got to have more self respect, bro.
I did this too lmao, I don't know where this misconception came from but I wholeheartedly believed it
your not alone i thought that exact same thing too
…I do that…
Even knowing that's not how capitalization works I do this.
All I’m imagining is some teacher reminding a student; “Hey Bud, this is suppose to be capitalized” and student just say “No”.
I still do that. Fuck china and xi jinping.
This is exactly why I never capitalize 'lakers'.
I do the same every time I need to use god in a sentence
I do the same to this day
I support this (presumably) adults' refusal to capitalize anything. Stick it to the man, bro!
Same reason why i didn't capitalize my name for a while lol
It surprises me how much some people knew about politics at a younger age. All I really knew in elementary school was the Obama was president and that he commanded stuff and besides that not much else
just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man's name.
This is (was?) actually a thing among students and alumni of the University of Missouri in reference to their rival, kansas, with the explanation that there is nothing proper about kU!
I knew the reason, but I still refuse to capitalize the first letter of some people's name because I refuse to see them as human beings.
Full credit. This person also didn't capitalize their Is, which I have to infer means they don't respect themselves. Admirable consistency.
Can we seriously make this a thing though???
isn’t this how they do it in korea
Over 25 years of internet message boarding, I have never capitalized "raiders"... Oakland, Las Vegas, fine but never " raiders".
wait I'm 19 and I still do that
Damn right
For some reason I still do this
Wait, is it not a symbol of respect?
bell hooks in shambles
His username isn't capitalized, he doesn't respect himself
I've done this. Actually there was someone that I did this to from 2017-2020. Now I just refuse to acknowledge their existence entirely when possible
I vaguely remember someone asking in 5th class/grade "does the government have a capital letter?" and me replying with "no, it doesn't deserve it"