To B Or Not To b
from the Microsoft-on-capitalism... dept
The folks over at Fortune (part of the AOL Time Warner family) have apparently just discovered Microsoft Word's "auto correct" feature that has been around for years. Someone has written an amusing piece looking at the odd patterns in auto-capitalization of words, wondering why certain words (prozac, paxil) got slighted over other words (Claritin, Zoloft). Of course, the answer is pretty straightforward: it just depends on what some folks at Microsoft thought were popular at the time, and put into their lexicon file. Also, interesting to note that the reporter claims he sends all emails in lowercase only. While I'm sure that's fine for personal mail (though, I still can't stop capitalizing myself), I wonder how well that works in a corporate setting - or have I missed out on the fact that no one anywhere capitalizes anything anymore?
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lower case
Which is probably useless info at this point...
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