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I can fix your shift key!

It is mentally harder to type prose without caps, post a full stop/period than not. You even use full stops/periods! ... and new lines.

Don't torture yourself so ... it's just down to the left ... yes ... the one with the up arrow ... oooh, caress me gently at first ... yes ... yes ... oh god ... shift is soooo pushed down ... please caress "I" ... oh yes [etc]

Anyway. "AI" isn't indispensable at all. I don't whitter on about my sodding huge De Walt wrist wrencher - its just a tool.

I'll never forget the first time I vapourised a chunk of concrete with my gimlet gaze. I really did! OK it was a sample in an electron microscope and I focussed in a bit too close. That was 1990. In 1999 I helped an employee of a helicopter factory get an Excel based "neural network" spreadsheet to work. Hopf (something) networks were all the rage. I could go on.

Please find your shift key.



If English is not GP's first language, it's quite possible his mother tongue has precisely the opposite rules regarding capitalization, especially when writing to someone. While it wasn't hard to switch to capitalizing `I', it took me years to stop writing `You` in emails. In Polish, "ja" (I) is always[1] lowercase, while "Ty" (you) is capitalized if it refers to the recipient of the message.

   Hi, i hope You've been well...
Was something I wrote quite often by reflex in the beginning.

[1] Unless it's the first word of a sentence.




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