What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I’m having a stroke?

Maybe they’re used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn’t explain the emails I’ve had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics’ messages?

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  • blindsight@beehaw.org
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    27 days ago

    I always capitalize words that locally mean something specific and technical. Like the Group a Record is associated with in the Student table.

    Do you mean things like that? Or just capitalizing all Nouns for no Reason or Something silly?

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      27 days ago

      Similar to that. Nouns that have a somewhat specific meaning in our business context, like Investor, Adviser, Product, Portfolio, etc.