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the letters that don't need a hype man
means the smaller, non-capital form of letters, used for most of written language by default.
from from the literal lower case where printers stored the small letter blocks, versus the upper case that held capitals — the furniture of a print shop became grammar.
physical originnamed after actual wooden type-storage cases
e.e. cummingsbuilt a whole poetic identity avoiding capitals
internet tonereads as casual, calm, or ironic online
german exceptiongerman still capitalizes every noun, not just names
for instance
bell hooks — author insisted on lowercase pen name since 1970s
lowercase tweets — gen z texting style signals irony or intimacy
iphone autocorrect wars — users fight software's urge to capitalize sentence starts