before phone keyboards did it for you, caps required the shift key, which was utterly inefficient for real-time online discourse. and then those us who omitted the caps realized something: we dont need em

'Utterly inefficient' seems a bit hyperbolic.

aaah such a methodical and painstaking expression, writing with caps and quotes, period and all.. suspects shields one from hyperbole :D

> aaah such a methodical and painstaking expression, writing with caps and quotes, period and all.. suspects shields one from hyperbole :D

Funny that you got through that without the shift key, only to reach for it as the final character to use an emoticon.

interestingly, I also type ellipses as ".." because the third dot is irrelevant!

I use number of dots to indicate length of the pause. A transcription of how I would have said it aloud. I think my maximum is 4.

i do that too!

Way before phone keyboards even existed, we learned touch typing and thus can create grammatically correct sentences with proper punctuation every bit as fast as someone who is skipping those niceties. You're just putting lipstick on lazy. ;-)

Would you help your Uncle Jack off a horse without uppercase letters?