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* the [[asdfmovie]] series are named without uppercase letters.
 
== [[Real Life|real life]] ==
 
* 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 "[[wikipedia:Architype Bayer|universal]]" typeface.
* anyone whose typewriter or computer keyboard has <s>a broken shift key</s> two broken shift keys and a broken caps lock key. or anyone who just doesn't care about grammar. there are [[Grammar Nazi|people who don't look too kindly on that kind of behavior]], of course.
* social media researcher [httphttps://www.zephoria.org/ danah boyd]'s name.
* porn star jessica drake signs her name like this.
* high school debate personality jon sharpe's name.
* [[Serial Killer|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 [[Title Case|title case]].
* the current{{not current}} (as of 2009) pepsi logo
* also the current{{not current}} (as of 2000) bp logo
* officially, the "it's a small world" attraction at [[Disney Theme Parks|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.
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* the guardian newspapers title is written like this, [[Private Eye|along with the rest of the paper]].
* [[Zachary Quinto|zachary quinto]] writes his rare blog postings and his twitter in all lowercase letters. sometimes [[Wall of Text|without paragraph breaks]], as well.
* christopher poole (aka,a.k.a. moot, mootykins), creator of online fora such as[[The Imageboard That Must Not Be Named|4chan]] and it's spin-offor canv.as, always types like this whenin replyingofficial toposts. hisperhaps users, due to thehe's [[Internet Troll|nature of userstrolololing]] inor question no one knows ifperhaps it's purposeful or ifhow he's ausually morontypes.
 
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