cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21484248
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gentlyorbiting posted:
i'm the guy who writes the books that the protagonist in supernatural horror movies frantically reads somewhere in act ii. job's pretty easy. lot of "legends of vampires have recurred all throughout human history" and "demonologists agree that the quickest way to un-summon a demon is to trap it in a cursed object". no citations of course; they don't pay me citation money. i had to learn html back in the early aughts when everyone started seeking their supernatural info on websites they found via top search engines like FINDLER and WEBSIGHT but that's died down now which is great because i didn't have it in me to pick up css. currently working on a new book about horses that are evil. it's called HORSES THAT ARE EVIL in all caps so the protagonist can find it quickly to yank off the library shelf. it will be published 35 years ago.
Author intentionally chose to ignore English ~~syntax~~ orthography, avoiding capitalization of sentences thus making it harder to read; didn't read.
Maybe a tumblr community isn't the one for you
Are all the trendy people doing the same thing as Boomers in inverse now? And similarly not caring about its impact on readability for non-neurotypical people?
It's just been the tumblr style for like 15 years. Kind of annoying but if you want tumblr posts then you've got to deal with it.
I don't think it's just Tumblr either; I know quite a few people who are allergic to the shift key. I kind of dig it as a style though? Like it's a dialect sort of thing.
I can appreciate it in things like poetry or the like but it screws with my AuADHD brain in ways that make prose far harder to read.
Thanks for letting me waste time reading your comment. It was great. /s
guys, stop wasting many bytes of fediverse storage /s
They might coming the tubes!
I don't think syntax means what you think it means.
You know what? You are correct. TIL that the term that I was looking for is orthography in this case. Thank you!
I didn't know it was called orthography either, so thanks yourself.