basic trope: stylistically avoiding capital letters in favor of all lowercase letters.
- straight: alice speaks and writes in all lowercase letters.
- exaggerated: alice's home place lacks any understanding of capitalization, leading to her relatives and neighbors speaking and writing in lowercase.
- downplayed:
- alice only uppercases the letter "I" when it is used.
- alice only uppercases her own name.
- alice only uppercases the word "UPPERCASE".
- in an inverse of smallcaps, alice uses a big lowercase font.
- inverted:
- CAPS LOCK
- uppercasE iS useD incorrectlY sucH aS aT thE enD oF a sentencE.
- justified:
- alice is an amazing writer but does not see the reason to use uppercase when lowercase works just fine.
- english is not alice's first language, so she is still trying to understand how uppercase vocabulary works.
- bit 5 was stuck high.
- the typewriter's shift linkage is broken.note
- the lower half of the typewriter's hammers have worn down too much. note
- subverted: after a long case of typing on the computer, alice finally writes down a word with uppercasing.
- double-subverted: she interprets this as an error and "corrects" it.
- zig-zagged: alice swaps between using uppercase and lowercase letters constantly.
- averted: alice uses uppercase and lowercase letters properly.
- parodied: alice literally mumbles her words and never punctuates to replicate the effect of speaking in this trope.
- enforced: the creators want to make alice into a character who is relaxed with vocabulary.
- lampshaded: "alice, care to explain why all of your handwriting lacks uppercasing?"
- invoked: alice wants to see how well her friends can interpret text without uppercasing.
- defied: alice is sent to a school where proper uppercasing is mandatory.
- exploited: alice decides to mess with grammar nazis who insist on using uppercase properly by using lowercase letters in all of her sentences only.
- discussed: "i wonder if people care that i write without uppercasing. probably not."
- conversed: "have you seen alice's handwriting? it makes me want to tear my eyes out from the lack of uppercasing."
- deconstructed: ???
- implied: part of alice's written sentences are shown with no capitalization in them.
back to all lowercase letters.
