• emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      I think it’s just a stylistic choice to show emphasis, like how every word in the last sentence of that paragraph is capitalized. Might be a tumblr thing.

    • stray@pawb.social
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      Notice how every word in the second-to-last sentence of the first post is capitalized, and how a lack of capitalization is the default. This is to add emphasis and meaning in a way I can’t quite describe. Like there’s a big difference between referring to someone as “the boy” and “The Boy”, but I can’t explain it.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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      I think it’s just typical bad writing. The poster uses “it’s” wrong just before using “its” correctly, doesn’t capitalize at the start of sentences, weirdly capitalizes “own”, etc.

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        3 days ago

        I don’t speak Tumblr dialect natively and therefore can’t explain it, but I do recognize it and can confirm that the capitalizations are done with explicit intent and meaning. None of them are random or accidental.

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        Huh, apparently it’s my curse to try to read meaning into every nuance of writing, regardless of whether any was intended. Stupid authors for training us to do this.

      • BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world
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        I’m pretty sure it’s common for people to write phonetically. I commonly write “are” instead of “our”, but I fix most of my mistakes during an edit. The “it’s” mistake is also common, although that’s usually a problem with my phone’s auto complete.