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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Another linguistics note: Has anyone else noticed how eliding the subject (in this case "I") seems to have become more and more acceptable in English over the last 10 years? Wonder if anyone has written about this trend.
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
also writing with lower case only became more popular
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christopher
@christopher
hitting the shift button on my keyboard for chatting takes away strong reps dedicated to coding
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Devin Conley
@conley
removed the shift key from all my keyboards years ago
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nixo
@nixo
good! using capitalization to begin sentences doesn't convey any extra information. and with "i" - it seems so arbitrary, especially now that we mostly don't use serifs
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Emmanuel🦉⌐◨-◨🎩🍥
@emmanuel
writing in lowercase is the meta signal for casual talking. also an indicator for power dynamics in exchange
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raluca
@raluca
also skipping punctuation
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