# The awful CAPS FOR EMPHASIS disease **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 24, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864 "2010-07-24T18:19:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864/21 "2010-07-26T01:01:16Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > > [@Mbossa](#): > > > > I don’t see how that’s any less annoying than using caps for emphasis. > > That was a JOKE son 🙂 Bah! You call that a joke? I’ll show you a joke! Why did the chicken cross the road? For fowl purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864/22 "2010-07-26T05:53:21Z")
> [@ghardester](#): > > Another thread about the evils of Capitalism. Well done! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864/23 "2010-07-26T06:13:17Z")
^ Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864/24 "2010-07-26T06:47:51Z")
But if I don’t CAPITALIZE random words how will you know what I’m saying is SUPER-DUPER IMPORTANT?!?! I mean if the GOD DAMN LIB ER ALS would just get it in their heads… that the TOP 10% are DESTROYING the WORLD… We would ALL be better off. What now? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864/25 "2010-07-26T06:57:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I agree it is annoying, but Facebook doesn’t give them any other way to emphasize words. > > And I will use separate paragraphs as long as the thoughts are not connected. If that happens to be each sentence in a separate paragraph, so be it. Yeah! And besides, I like smaller paragraphs, and even separate sentences. Makes it much easier for my poor old eyes to follow. What _I_ hate is people who clump their entire post into one huge block of text. Even with my reading glasses, it’s often just too difficult to track the lines of text without losing my place too much. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864/26 "2010-07-26T12:45:07Z")
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864/27 "2010-07-26T16:21:16Z")
> [@Mbossa](#): > > Bah! You call that a joke? I’ll show you a joke! > > Why did the chicken cross the road? > > For fowl purposes. Why did the dolphin cross the road? For illicit porpoises. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864/28 "2010-07-27T04:44:38Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > > [@Mbossa](#): > > > > Bah! You call that a joke? I’ll show you a joke! > > > > Why did the chicken cross the road? > > > > For fowl purposes. > > Why did the dolphin cross the road? > > For illicit porpoises. That’s TERRIBLE! 😃 But I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864/29 "2010-07-27T13:06:49Z")
As least they emphasise the right words, unlike in comic books where completely random words in speech balloons are bolded, sending my head in a spin. ---
**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864/30 "2010-07-27T13:18:20Z")
What? like I have TIME to actually move my mouse just to add some italics… using caps is faster. …hmm, now that I think of it… I cap to emphasize a point, but do starring to do emotional stressing. As in, _I_ wouldn’t say that… THAT part of the statement is wrong. And the VOICES in _MY_ head say it’s COOL!!!11!!!1eleventyone [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-awful-caps-for-emphasis-disease/547864.md?page=1)