Most people don’t have “é” on their keyboard, yet they still spell “fiancée”.

They only do if autocorrect allows it

Do they? Other than like the new yorker?

Singapore is a city, Australia is a continent. Singapore is a poor analog for pretty much every other country. It was founded precisely because it sits near a busy sea route. It makes sense for Singapore to be very open to trade. That does not mean it works for Australia.

(I'm not arguing that the reverse is true, just that Singapore proves nothing.)

What do you reckon would work well for Aus?

> as it's a very common style to find for informal writing all over the internet

No it's not. It's common in chats where those people don't bother with punctuation at all, often writing a single sentence over multiple lines.

It's not common for blogs or long form content.

It's not derived from that. Most people don't use IRC anymore and there are basically no open chat platforms left. Most people now use phones to chat, where the keyboard automatically changes case for you after finishing a sentence.

So typing in all lowercase is a choice. I think it's a way to signal "I don't follow norms". It signals membership in a group.

What is the logic behind transforming `FreeBSD RCEs` to `freebsd RCEs`?

If what you're trying to communicate is that, like Sam Altman, you're too cool the press the shift key, then why write some initialisms in upper case? After all, there is a style of acronyms that are always written in lower case: Latin ones ("i.e.", "e.g.")

Mao did not simplify Chinese. The First Chinese Character Simplification Scheme simply adopted simplified characters in common use.

But if it was such a great idea, why is it not an issue in Hong Kong which does not use it?

Your comment could be read as implying that Unified Arabic, the subject of this post, must have been useless as an idea because it wasn't widely adopted.

In reality, there are many factors, not only pure practicality, that lead people to reject reforms like these. In the case of Arabic, it was deeply held traditional values; in the case of Hong Kong and Taiwan, well, I imagine it's simply an unwillingness to appear to be aligning with a regime one politically disagrees with.

> The pedantry of being angry at the US for being the only country that actually has the word "America" in its name

That is not the reason.

People say that Columbus discovered America. They don't mean the country, they mean the continent. The people in the continent of America are called Americans. About a century ago, US Americans came to view America as two continents.

Many countries still hold to America being a single continent, but there's no name for the people of America because US Americans stole it. The is very equivalent to how the EU is stealing Europe/European.

> Canadian truckers were doing bad things and A/I were doing good things

That is such a platitude that I'm not sure if you're serious or you're just attempting Reddit humor.

But if you're serious, at least try to justify what A/I is doing by saying things like terrorism is in the eye of the beholder like Piker does.

> by saying things like terrorism is in the eye of the beholder

This is so trivially true that it's not worth bringing up in discussoon with anyone who can be taken seriously. It's true for any politically charged word, and terrorism is one of the most political words in the English language.

I haven't seen A/I commit any terrorism. Which train station did they blow up?

Am I missing something? There's no SH in what GP said. What does SH even mean?

Guessing SH meant Steven Hawking, who kicked the bucket. Metaphorically.

> Polls show the population regrets Brexit.

They also showed that Brexit wasn't going to pass and Trump wouldn't get elected.