# People Who Capitalize Every Word In Forum Posts **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 14, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895 "2008-10-14T16:31:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/21 "2008-10-14T20:08:37Z")
Pffft! tryíng tó attráct atténtion by capitalízing wórds ís só sád. … . sóme péople áre júst pathétic. … . ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/22 "2008-10-14T20:28:08Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Sometimes you wonder what people think this does for their posts, to capitalize every first letter. If we could just understand… > > On second thought, nah… 😉 I see what you did there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/23 "2008-10-14T21:35:19Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > For The Record, WTF Is Generally Agreed To Mean “What The Fuck”, Not “Why The Fuck”. > > Maybe there’s a hidden message. Have you tried reading just the capitalized letters and seeing if they spell “HELP ME” or something? WTF nowadays means Who, Why, or What the fuck. We also have the SFW version of WTH. Regarding the first word capped I think **MsWhatsit** is correct. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/24 "2008-10-14T21:35:43Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > Pffft! tryíng tó attráct atténtion by capitalízing wórds ís só sád. .. . sóme péople áre júst pathétic. .. . Gerard Manley Hopkins, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/25 "2008-10-14T21:40:12Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > I’ve mentioned this before, but on other message boards, I found that users from India type entirely in lowercase. They may capitalize a word here and there, but they’re not proper nouns or words at the beginning of a sentence. > > “hello i am the sanjit will you Help me with my homework?” Maybe veering slightly off topic, but I hang out on a baseball blog where if you don’t use proper capitalization and punctuation they will get all over your case. They are also pretty rigid on grammar and having proper paragraphs. If I am on an informal board, I like to type in all lower case mainly because it is faster. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/26 "2008-10-14T21:51:55Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Building Interest Too Excessively Makes Your Capitals Really Annoying, No Kidding. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/27 "2008-10-14T21:55:37Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > 😕 Spell it. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/28 "2008-10-14T22:00:14Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > Spell it. I got that…was just wondering why it was directed at me… Oh Well… ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/29 "2008-10-14T22:07:04Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > I got that…was just wondering why it was directed at me… Sorry, not directed **at** you; just trying to riff on the person you quoted as saying that the capitals made her posts “interesting.” ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/30 "2008-10-14T22:14:51Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Sorry, not directed **at** you; just trying to riff on the person you quoted as saying that the capitals made her posts “interesting.” Sometimes I Overanalyze Things 😉 Thanks For The Clarification. (Isn’t This Post Interesting?) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/31 "2008-10-14T23:31:31Z")
> [@Rack-a-Bones](#): > > WTF nowadays means Who, Why, or What the fuck. We also have the SFW version of WTH. > > Regarding the first word capped I think **MsWhatsit** is correct. Apparently not everyone’s figured it out: [http://www.wtfgroup.com/](http://www.wtfgroup.com/) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/32 "2008-10-15T01:14:11Z")
this is how i roll ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/33 "2008-10-15T01:34:37Z")
Respond to all her posts with “CTADR” “Capitalisation Too Annoying, Didn’t Read”. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/34 "2008-10-15T01:56:07Z")
> [@Fretful\_Porpentine](#): > > Gerard Manley Hopkins, is that you? Rhythms sprung Our ire is riz I wonder where Gaudere is? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/35 "2008-10-15T03:11:18Z")
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**Author:** ![Dripping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@Dripping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dripping)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/36 "2008-10-15T14:20:53Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I know that some forum software takes all-caps posts and converts them into initial caps, so it’s possible that she’s got the caps lock on all the time and doesn’t understand why her posts are showing up like they do. Of course, that raises the question of why she’s typing in all caps in the first place, I suppose. No, she admits to doing it on purpose, then whines about people “acting like my 5th grade teacher” when they tell her how annoying/hard to read/incorrect it is. And…she keeps doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/37 "2008-10-15T14:29:16Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I have a bad habit and I have no idea why I do it, even though I know it’s grammatically incorrect - I find myself sometimes capitalizing a word in a sentence that seems important. For example: > > “The Candidates will address each other at the Debate this week.” > > Generally, I catch myself and edit accordingly, but still … > > Doesn’t the German langauge do that somehow someway? I like to think I picked it up from the root and I’m not just a noodge. I do the same thing but I regard it as part of my distinctive Style of Writing, if that makes sense. You see a lot of it in old Victorian (and earlier) Writings- books, posters, pamphlets, and so forth; it’s always stuck me as a handy way to draw attention to Important Things within whatever you’re typing. I have to say that Capitalising Every Word In A Sentence really doesn’t bother me that much, though. I’ve only got so many accusations of “Communism!” and “Kitten Hating!” to bandy about these days and excessive Capitalisation just isn’t on the accusation shortlist for me, I’m afraid. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/38 "2008-10-15T14:53:40Z")
> [@Dripping](#): > > No, she admits to doing it on purpose, then whines about people “acting like my 5th grade teacher” when they tell her how annoying/hard to read/incorrect it is. And…she keeps doing it. Tell her you wouldn’t have to do it if she had listened to her fifth grade teacher. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/39 "2008-10-15T15:43:23Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Tell her you wouldn’t have to do it if she had listened to her fifth grade teacher. Perhaps that’s the last grade she attended, and she dropped out because she was 18 now and didn’t want to be told what to do? ---
**Author:** ![UncleNito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7cd45c/32.png) [@UncleNito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleNito)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-capitalize-every-word-in-forum-posts/467895/40 "2008-10-15T17:01:05Z")
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