People Who Capitalize Every Word In Forum Posts

Pffft! tryíng tó attráct atténtion by capitalízing wórds ís só sád. … . sóme péople áre júst pathétic. … .

I see what you did there. :smiley:

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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, is that you?

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.

:confused:

Spell it.

I got that…was just wondering why it was directed at me…

Oh Well…

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 :wink: Thanks For The Clarification.

(Isn’t This Post Interesting?)

Apparently not everyone’s figured it out: http://www.wtfgroup.com/ :smiley:

this is how i roll

Respond to all her posts with “CTADR”

“Capitalisation Too Annoying, Didn’t Read”.

Rhythms sprung
Our ire is riz
I wonder where
Gaudere is?


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      n     f     n     t     n     s     i
      d           e           t           a
            a           i     e     n     l
      i           t     s     l     o     e
      n     s     h           l     t     c
            e     a     a     e           t
      t     x     t           c     j     i
      h     u           n     t     u     c
      e     a     i     a     u     s     a
            l     s     t     a     t     l
      e     l           i     l
      n     y     a     o           o     s
      d           t     n     p     n     e
            h           a     a     e     x
      a     e     t     l     s
            a     h           s     o     a
|     h     l     e     p     i     f     n
      a     t           r     o           d
K     p     h     h     i     n     m
i     p     y     e     o     s     y     g
m     y           a     r     .           e
            n     r     i                 n
J     p     a     t     t                 d
o     e     t           y                 e
n     o     i           ,                 r
g     p     o
|     l     n
i     e
l     .

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.

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. :wink:

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?

I would type everything in SMALL CAPS if HTML would let me.