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* davan in ''{{something positive}}'' writes like this in instant messenger. it becomes a plot point when someone discovers someone has been pretending to be davan online, but writes with correct capitalization.
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* davan in ''{{something positive}}'' writes like this in instant messenger. it becomes a minor plot point when someone discovers someone has been pretending eva's ex pretends to be davan online, but fails to fool jason because he writes with correct capitalization.
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* davan in ''{{something positive}}'' writes like this in instant messenger. it becomes a plot point when someone discovers someone has been pretending to be davan online, but writes with correct capitalization.
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* many instances of latin and greek texts use only lower-case letters, since the original texts in the classical period had no capital or lower case distinction, and everything was capitalized. it is much easier on the eyes to read all lower-case letters, however, in most modern typefaces, so the modern practice inverts the [[BoldInflation completely capitalized]] original text. such ancient texts in their original forms also contained NoPunctuationPeriod, but are given some in modern renditions
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* as a result of originally being forum names, a number of [[LetsPlay lets players]]. ones that come up regularly here include {{slowbeef}}, pokecapn and medibot.
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* ''{{gunnerkrigg court}}'' uses the [[http://www.blambot.com/font_aleandwenches.shtml ale and wenches font]], which has some letters look the same in uppercase and lowercase. tom siddell's melancholic use of this and {{no punctuation period}} are also evident in his {{concept art}} [[http://tea-san.deviantart.com/art/Gamma-Zeta-5061159 here]].
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* ''{{gunnerkrigg ''Webcomic/{{gunnerkrigg court}}'' uses the [[http://www.blambot.com/font_aleandwenches.shtml ale and wenches font]], which has some letters look the same in uppercase and lowercase. tom siddell's melancholic use of this and {{no punctuation period}} are also evident in his {{concept art}} [[http://tea-san.deviantart.com/art/Gamma-Zeta-5061159 here]].
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* because most dialogue in ''webcomic/{{homestuck}}'' is typed, not spoken, several characters 'speak' like this, including jade, john, dave, aradia, sollux, nepeta and eridan.
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* because most dialogue in ''webcomic/{{homestuck}}'' ''Webcomic/{{homestuck}}'' is typed, not spoken, several characters 'speak' like this, including jade, john, dave, aradia, sollux, nepeta and eridan.
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* because most dialogue in ''{{homestuck}}'' ''webcomic/{{homestuck}}'' is typed, not spoken, several characters 'speak' like this, including jade, john, dave, aradia, sollux, nepeta and eridan.
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Added the link, and sorry to be nitpicky but mr. coconut is just a meme. The white weewoo is the mascot. The more you know ★ :)
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* ''{{skate}}'' is always marketed as ''skate.''
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* ''{{chainsawsuit}}'', though it occasionally uses capital letters for emphasis.
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* sillyworld by stone sour is written this way
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* australian poet joanne burns actually changed her name to lowercase. however, she does use uppercase letters ''occasionally'' in her work.
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* [[YouTube youtube]] video captions generated using their transcribe audio feature are often like this.
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* herbert bayer, from the famous german bauhaus school of design, banned the use of uppercase letters in school materials in 1925 ("we only use small characters because it saves time. moreover, why have 2 alphabets when one will do? why write capitals if we cannot speak capitals?"). the most iconic "bauhaus" typeform is based on his "[[http://www.type.nu/bayer/univer.html universal]]" typeface.
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* [[AfterTheQuake after the quake]]'s chapter titles are all written in lowercase. the english version of the book also has the title in lowercase.
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* the guardian newspapers title is written like this, [[PrivateEye along with the rest of the paper]].
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* [[{{Iamamiwhoami}} iamamiwhoami]]; their song titles (such as "b", "u-1", and "; john") are all lowercase letters as well
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a stylistic choice in which all text is in lowercase letters. it can be thought of as the opposite of [[BoldInflation writing in all caps]] when [[LargeHam emphasizing a point]], in which case it can be used to give a melancholic feel to whatever you're writing. it is [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma not generally thought of as orthographically correct]].
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a stylistic choice in which all text is in lowercase letters. it can be thought of as the opposite of [[BoldInflation writing in all caps]] when [[LargeHam emphasizing a point]], in which case it can be used to give a melancholic feel to whatever you're writing. it is [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma not generally thought of as orthographically correct]].
correct]], giving it a (if only in the eyes of advertisers) a casual, hip feel.
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* the inhabitants of ''{{monospace}}'' speak this way.
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* vitamin water labels.
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*** [[BoldInflation THOUGH MORE OF THEM TYPE LIKE THIS.]]
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can also occur in internet forums monitored by censorship daemons programmed to demote all-caps entries, since all-lower-case text is much more readable than no-lower-case.
also see [[NoPunctuationPeriod no punctuation period]]
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!!!examples:
'''[-{{advertising}}-]'''
* "i'm lovin' it." actually, all [=mcdonald's=] advertising since the switch to this slogan.
'''[-{{art}}-]'''
* in addition to his more well known logo-like signature, [[NormanRockwell norman rockwell]] occasionally signed his paintings in all lowercase cursive.
'''[-{{literature}}-]'''
* because it is written in the perspective of two different people, half of the john green/david levithan book ''will grayson will grayson'' is written this way.
* in [[DouglasCoupland douglas coupland]]'s novel ''jpod'', a number of characters from a lesbian commune spell their names entirely in lower case, because they see upper case as "privileging" certain letters over others.
* feminist author {{bell hooks}}' pen name.
* author [[AndrewJOffutt andrew j. offutt]] likes to write his name in all lowercase.
* [[EECummings e. e. cummings]] did this sometimes, and now everybody writes his name this way.
* don marquis wrote a series of newspaper columns in the early 20th century supposedly typed by archy the cockroach, who, while he had the strength to work the keys (by climbing up on top of the type writer and jumping down on the keys) did not have enough strength to work the shift. there was a whole cast of characters in archy's world, including a cat mehitabel. some of the {{archy and mehitabel}} columns were collected into a series of books.
* in the hungarian book ''pál utcai fiúk'' (''the boys from paul street'') nemecsek ernő's name is written in the titular gang's book with all lower case and with black ink as a mean of dishonor. due to [[PopCulturalOsmosis pop cultural osimosis]], doing this deliberately in a publication became a mean of insult in hungarian.
* [[AfterTheQuake after the quake]]'s chapter titles are all written in lowercase. the english version of the book also has the title in lowercase.
'''[-{{live action tv}}-]'''
* ''{{dinnerladies}}''' title text.
* ''{{jackass}}'' credits
* ''{{thirtysomething}}''
'''[-{{music}}-]'''
* lots of song lyrics are written this way\\
without punctuation \\
to give a flow-of-consciousness feel \\
and look more poetic \\
see also poetry
* [[ToriAmos tori amos]]. she even has an album title in all lowercase letters (''from the choirgirl hotel'').
* theaudience
* bond, not to be confused with [[{{JamesBond}} the other guy]]
* [[TheCars the cars]]
* fun.
* the name of the swedish rock band kent is spelled, well, like that.
* k.d. lang
* maybeshewill
* mc chris
* [[PeterGabriel peter gabriel]] signs his work as such.
* set fire to flames
* [[{{Silverchair}} silverchair]]
* [[{{Slint}} slint]]'s landmark album ''spiderland'' has (very minimal) liner notes written in this style.
* an early example is [[TheBeatles the beatles]]' second album ''with the beatles''
* [[{{Mothy}} mothy]]
'''[-{{networks}}-]'''
* {{adult swim}} is, of course, stylized as [adult swim].
* {{tbs}} is stylized with all lowercase letters, as is the slogan "very funny".
'''[-{{poetry}}-]'''
* this and [[NoPunctuationPeriod lack of punctuation]] (other than\\
parentheses) were the signature style (and it spawned plenty\\
of [[FollowTheLeader imitators]]) of e e cummings poetry
* [[ArchyAndMehitabel archy the cockroach]] types in lowercase because his body is too small to depress the shift key and another key at the same time.
'''[-{{video games}}-]'''
* ''{{heretic}}'' and ''{{hexen}}'', except for the title logos.
* ''{{cat planet}}''
* ''{{the white chamber}}'' (title of the game)
* chaos from {{xenosaga}} which is done in contrast to the all caps KOS-MOS
** [[FridgeLogic which is strange because both the lack off capitalization, and THE NAME ITSELF, get no notice.]]
* planet's speech in ''[[SidMeiersAlphaCentauri sid meier's alpha centauri]]'' is never capitalized. it also constantly refers to specific people as "earth<name>" (e.g. earthdierdre).
* ''luminesweeper'' for {{game boy advance}} uses lowercase arial bold throughout its on-screen text.
'''[-{{newspaper comics}}-]'''
* ''ComicStrip/{{jump start}}'' uses this for the speech of small children, originally as a {{translation convention}}.
* moe from ''{{calvin and hobbes}}'' talks like this, in addition to having his own [[PaintingTheFourthWall distinctive font]].
'''[-{{webcomics}}-]'''
* ''{{gunnerkrigg court}}'' uses the [[http://www.blambot.com/font_aleandwenches.shtml ale and wenches font]], which has some letters look the same in uppercase and lowercase. tom siddell's melancholic use of this and {{no punctuation period}} are also evident in his {{concept art}} [[http://tea-san.deviantart.com/art/Gamma-Zeta-5061159 here]].
* because most dialogue in ''{{homestuck}}'' is typed, not spoken, several characters 'speak' like this, including jade, john, dave, aradia, sollux, nepeta and eridan.
** some exiles also type like this, but only because [[AfterTheEnd they have never typed before]].
* ''[[{{Ptitlechw7pjpl}} minus.]]'' (title text)
* ''[[{{Ptitle4ag27p7v}} pictures for sad children]]'' uses this to add to its cynical and fatalist tone
* ''[[{{XKCD}} xkcd]]'' in some of the earlier comics.
* '''in ''{{order of the stick}}'' orcs talk like this.'''
** capital letters intrigue mungu.
** eric greenhilt too. "hi roy! wanna play blocks with me?"
* ''[[{{DamagedTape}} damaged tape]]'' used to be titled in all lowercase, before it moved to an official website--the titles of each new strip are still this trope, however.
* ''[[{{Achewood}} achewood's]]'' roast beef speaks like this dogg complete with no punctuation because he is hella quiet and subdued very much a defining characteristic
'''[-{{web original}}-]'''
* [[http://www.metroid2002.com/ this]] famous ''{{metroid}}'' fansite uses this style.
* sloshy from "[[HomestarRunner homestar runner]]" uses this in their logo.
* indie developer [[http://www.auntiepixelante.com auntie pixelante's blog]].
* mr.coconut, the neopets editorial's mascot.
'''[-[[TVTropes tv tropes wiki]]-]'''
* [[SelfDemonstratingArticle this page]], obviously.
* the indices to the bottom-left of every page.
* some tropers like to do this with their troper names.
* the tv tropes logo
'''[-{{real life}}-]'''
* anyone whose typewriter or computer keyboard has [[strike:a broken shift key]] two broken shift keys and a broken caps lock key. or anyone who just doesn't care about grammar. there are [[GrammarNazi people who don't look too kindly on that kind of behavior]], of course.
* social media researcher [[http://www.zephoria.org/ danah boyd]]'s name.
* porn star jessica drake signs her name like this.
* high school debate personality jon sharpe's name.
* [[SerialKiller serial killer]] ted bundy always signed letters like this: "peace, ted"
* a whole lot of internet forum users. sometimes inverted by having every letter capitalized like [[TitleCase title case]].
* the current (as of 2009) pepsi logo
* also the current (as of 2000) bp logo
* officially, the "it's a small world" attraction at [[DisneyThemeParks disney theme parks]] is "properly" spelled with all lowercase letters. it's still frequently referred to using capitalization though, even by disney themselves.
* some grammar textbooks for grade school kids will have exercises with the directions to rewrite sentences written like this with properly capitalized words.
* elementary school students learning cursive are usually taught lowercase letters first, resulting in this when they attempt to write names or sentences in cursive before finishing the unit.
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