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Do people actually send messages to each other like that? I modified all the precomposed replies on my watch to remove capitals and punctuation. Using capitals and punctuation raises the register of the message for me, and 99% of the time if I’m sending a text it’s to friends or family.

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I normally wouldn’t say anything but since it’s the topic of conversation, I hate that. I see lowercase and deliberate no punctuation as passive aggression.

Depends on your circle of friends I guess.

I think it's not unreasonable to expect there to be written dialects as well as spoken ones. A comparatively huge amount of a person's communication is written these days, where previously it would have been face-to-face or with a phone call.

The general spoken register where I live skews informal, so I assume this has carried over to written communication. Using capitals and punctuation comes across to me as stilted and like an email or a letter rather than a text message.

It's an interesting subject definitely

  >  I see lowercase and deliberate no punctuation as passive aggression.

interesting, why does it seem as passive aggression?

for me upper/lowercase just feels redundant and its simpler for me, but i guess some people can see it as annoying...

What does "raises the register" in this context mean?

Register of speak I suppose ? Formal, vulgar, technical, casual... I might be wrong English is not my first language. But that would fits nicely. I understand that as going from casual to formal, for instance.

“Raise the bar” would be the colloquially used term around here.

It means the formality level of text. I think that person was saying that within their family chats, they perceive that using capitals and punctuation makes the messages feel unnecessarily/inappropriately formal.

Yes exactly.

If you're in the car, it's nice, but it simply doesn't work.. So what d you do? You first struggle 2 minutes with the phone, and fixing all the mess it made, and then just pick up the phone and quickly type a message in 10 seconds. With or without autofrustrate

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