Possibly the dumbest question I've asked on here

[NumbersGirl]

Hmm, in that case maybe it's just a silly American thing.

 

But, let's pretend for the sake of argument that the two-space thing became standard for ending a sentence / transition to the next sentence. Do you think that could then become justification for getting rid of the uppercase letter at the beginning of the sentence?

[Prince Myshkin]

Yes, that would work. People couldn't cope with it though, you know what they are like with change.

[Ms Magpie]

It would become standard after a while... To give a concrete example, here in Slovenia, some people don't know that the word for /desired, welcome/ is written like this: zaželen because EVERYONE says zaželjen and the latter form has always been frowned upon but I think that lately, things have changed a bit and so zaželjen is acceptable, too.

 

SO BASICALLY, things can still change and people could accept a new manner of writing. It'd just take time.

[Prince Myshkin]

You're more likely to get words evolving, but a whole system involving the set up of a sentence would take ages. And you would need a proper push for it and it's not something that is desperately needed so won't happen.