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Comment by pavlov | Hacker News Reader

Donald Trump's Twitter account nearly follows this rule, but not quite:

"4.2 million hard working Americans have already received a large Bonus and/or Pay Increase because of our recently Passed Tax Cut & Jobs Bill....and it will only get better! We are far ahead of schedule." (Feb 11, 2018)

He missed "Schedule" but incorrectly capitalized "passed". Tsk.

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Looks like capitalization as a general emphasis - if you just scan capitalized words:

Americans Bonus Pay Increase Passed Tax Cut Jobs Bill

Makes a good summary of the points they want to emphasize, that Americans get a bonus because the government is progressing on the Republican+blue-collar agenda.

(For when tweets are TL;DR)

Having tl;dr tweets shows how far twitter has gone from the original concept.

Missing "Schedule" isn't a big deal. During that period, English speakers didn't capitalize every noun, just the ones deemed important. Evidently Trump doesn't consider "schedule" important.

Makes sense. Trump must spend a lot of time reading 17th century classics in original editions.

Dear God am I thankful we don't do that anymore. Nothing is more annoying than hearing one's inner voice read a sentence like William Shatner

He's probably just dictating into Android's text to speech.

Yeah the random capitalization is one of the more annoying things it does.

That doesn’t explain the often weird spelling and things like “covfefe” which must have been typed?

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