https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/18/death-of-capital-letters-why-gen-z-loves-lowercase

I feel as though I'm being trolled with this article.

Sorry,. I should have said: "I feel as though I'm being trolled with this article".

I know I'm getting older, but since when did #grammar have a "feeling", such as:

"Capital letters can feel stern or abrupt", as referenced from the Guardian article above.

Seriously?

Grammar isn't a feeling -- it's syntactically important and conveys the same rules and understanding for both the parties of a conversation.

I SuppoSE I JUsT DoN'T GeT iT.

I also see this trend a lot in tech writing -- but presumably as well, I can place a likely age on the author as well?

Hmm...

#todotxr #ebnf #bnf #wsn #grammar #syntax

Are there any grammar/syntax folks here who've worked with (E)BNF/WSN/etc?

I'm doing some work on todotxt (http://todotxt.org) to define its formal grammar in EBNF. I'm having a terrible time being able to validate its syntax, etc. Every on-line validator I've found (or library via rust) seems to completely disagree on the proper syntax, for example:

foo ::= "1" | "2"' ;

Some don't like the "::", some want ":=", or "=", some don't like the terminator (";") at the end of the line, etc.

I've written EBNF before, although admittedly I just made my own judgement as to the validity of it -- and in this example, the point wasn't to then generate a parsing syntax from it.

But with todotxt, I do want to be able to do that, and I'm struggling with all these little discrepancies.

Any help/thoughts would be really useful.

TIA!

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We have been trying to not use our phones at breakfast, so today we had a discussion about the common confusion between less (quantity) and fewer (number). My question is how often do mastodon-people use the other forms of less? In particular the word lest.
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