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wHaT's uP With the cApiTaLizAtioN iN this TitLe?

I've spent, like, several minutes of my life trying to figure this out, and... came up blank?

The title is not copied from the PDF, where such issues would be rare but not unimaginable. I also couldn't find any articles linking to this PDF with this particular title.

So... a misfiring accessibility solution? Solar rays directly going for the Shift key?

(P.S. Yeah, I know "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." -- but this seems sort-of uncommon?)

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Sorry, this was a mobile autocorrect issue I didn’t notice while submitting. I took the title from the press release but had to rearrange some things to fit and apparently iOS thought it should capitalize. The title came from the AG’s office[0], but I wanted to link directly to the filing.

0 - https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-...

Thanks for sharing the exact workflow, and sorry for potentially derailing the discussion on this! (For the record, I upvoted all substantial comments, and truly enjoyed my comment going from +4 to -2 and back again...).

I've never had iOS (either the Cisco or the Apple variant) randomly apply CamelCaps, though. One more thing to look out for in the future :)

I was perplexed as well. I even tried counting the randomly capitalized letters to see if it spelled out a secret message or something...but unless someone can tell me what 'TSGMUFLCSDVPVD' means, I think it might be a red herring.

Best I could come up with was that they're trying to make a mockery of Texas's position on the case. But the odd capitalization isn't frequent enough to make it obvious, so I too wasted minutes of my life looking for some kind of pattern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_caps

Malfunctioning speech-to-text tooling? Note the errant capitalization falls on start-of-syllable boundaries.

Alternatively, could be an artifact of an LLM tooling, where those boundaries reflect token boundaries.

    Unlaw / Ful / Ly
    Dri / Vers
    Pri / Vate

Well, I'm not a native English speaker, but I'm pretty sure that in "UnlawFulLy" the capitals don't represent pronunciation stress points? Those would look more like "uNlawfullY", right?

Yes, but stress aside, the syllables still divide as "un-law-ful-ly". (At least I believe so and Claude also agrees; that's a quorum).

At first I thought it was sarcasm-case. But no, doesn't seem like that either.

I spent a few minutes looking at it and came up blank as well :/

I cracked the code, it's an anagram for "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".

The hint is that the title makes you want to shoot your eye out.

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