I have seen recently movie titles as well as plain old nouns where the last letter is ‘S’ and it is strangely and inexplicably capitalized when the other letters are not.
Let’s sat the word was ‘tarantulas’. They would spell it ‘TarantulaS’.
Does anyone here know what this means/signifies and could they please let me in on the joke? Thanks
Could you give some real examples?
I suspect it is just a stylization of the text for appearance. Like how the posters for Zardoz have the “RD” large.
Agreed; barring any specific examples, I’d assume it’s just a stylistic choice for the logo.
Can you show some examples of these movie titles? I have never seen a title spelled like that.
I know that I saw one on Tuesday or Wednesday… and before I even created this thread, I searched to find it again… but I was not successful. It may well just have been oddly stylized… but if it had a meaning I wanted to research it and find it.
This has been done with some professional sports wordmarks over the years. The San Francisco Giants baseball team, for example, used the logo below in the 1980s and early 1990s. The stylized “GIANTS” as it appears below was also used on their home white uniforms.
All the letters there are capitalized.
Yes, but there’s a font size difference. Maybe what I saw then ( but can’t produce now, I’m sorry to say ) was a stylized homage to the SF Giants?
( Hey, I just wanted to check. Sorry. Look, no one wants to have,
“You don’t know that, you miserable old Fudd? When the H— were you born?
Way back in the 20th century? OK, Boomer… wipe off the dust & smell the coffee”
slammed in their faces. )
The S being large isn’t inexplicable. It’s to make the logo
more symmetrical.
This. It’s also possible, I suppose, that the larger G and S are meant to symbolize “Golden State,” one of California’s nicknames.
It may also be worth noting that that’s not the team’s current logo; SportsLogos.net indicates that, as @bordelond notes, that version was used from 1983 through 1993; their current logo doesn’t have the oversized G and S:
There’s this movie, but it’s just the same thing as the Giants logo:
And then there’s this movie, which is doing for letters other than “S”, but is definitely using caps for the last letter with lowercase in-between:
Seens like a pretty normal stylistic choice, really.
The designers where I worked, way back in the day, were amused by the “First and last letter large” fad. We called it “Man From Snowy RiveR type”.
Just replace every ending s with a z and you’ll be hip.
And then there’s Se7en.
That’s just a stylized way to write sesevenen.
Aarggh, that reminds me of L33Tspeak, where nerds thought they were SO edgy by replacing letters with numbers.
Oh, and leet was short for elite …
Hey, snooty nerds! When I was a child, the house across the street had the address 8O2O, and I always thought of it as The BOZO house. Thirty years before you acted like you invented a whole new language.
A good movie; morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt.
It might even be where Gwyneth Paltrow came up with ‘Goop’.
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?!?!?!
Yes, great.