It’s finally come to this — writing by a professional that resembles the peckings of a 12-year-old tweeting to other illiterate pre-teens. No longer is the capital letter necessary. No longer is the Shift key on the keyboard utilized. Every single one of this words circled in red should be capitalized:
The article contains 35 photo captions, all devoid of capital letters like this one:
There are other mistakes, too, but none as egregious and juvenile as these. I think we’ve now seen a new low in writing from Yahoo! Shine.
December 19, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Hmmm. That’s not even funny. It’s sad.
December 19, 2012 at 5:43 pm
I think maybe the writer wrote the captions on her phone and intended (I hope) to edit it before it was published. I guess that would be the real meaning of “phoning it in.”
December 19, 2012 at 3:00 pm
And yet they capitalized USDA. Very sad.
December 19, 2012 at 5:44 pm
How funny. Why would she capitalize that and not any of the other words? I am gobsmacked.