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It's interesting to me that you had such difficulty, and it makes me wonder how old you are. Growing up using instant messengers on the internet in the '90s and early '00s, it was normal to type without ever using capital letters, except for emphasis. The only thing that changes that style is when someone is typing on a phone that capitalizes for them (though one friend manually undoes those "corrections").


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To me instant messaging is different because we usually type short messages

The capitalization is not needed to structure the text because a sentence = a message

So the UI will take care of delimiting the sentences




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