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eggytoday at 4:00 PM2 repliesview on HN

nobody shouts in lowercase—it whispers its way into being, a small insurgency against The Proper Way To Speak ; )

-- inspired by e.e. cummings!


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wredcolltoday at 4:20 PM

> Additionally, The Chicago Manual of Style, which prescribes favoring non-standard capitalization of names in accordance with the bearer's strongly stated preference, notes "E. E. Cummings can be safely capitalized; it was one of his publishers, not he himself, who lowercased his name."[65]

pfortunytoday at 5:19 PM

But then Clawd gets capitalized...