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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Sunday Dinner Feb 2
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 09:22:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-05, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
> On 2/4/2025 5:44 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On 2025-02-04, Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On 2025-02-04, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>> lol okay.  I've been on Usenet since the 90's, too; never had a problem
>>>>> using capital letters.  The use of them was drilled into me in typing
>>>>> class in the 1970's.  It also makes things easier to read.
>>>>
>>>> I associate it with the use of cell phones, which actually are
>>>> kind of painful when it comes to capitalization and punctuation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Newer phones have auto capitalization and it works very well. Only
>>> rarely do I need to force upper or lower case.
>> 
>> I've got an iPhone with an up-to-date OS.  I'm always having to
>> re-capitalize stuff.  Or un-capitalize it.
>> 
>
> If you never had formal training in typing or formatting, the only 
> importance it getting your message to someone on their phone.  IDK, 
> seems, FWIW many abbreviations are understood.

I'm a former copy editor and proofreader.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton