That’s just an efficiency problem. Either way at least the end result is good.
What About The People That Capitalize The First Letter Of Every Word? Better Safe Than Sorry I Guess.
I can’t bear the German/Victorian people either. The ones who Capitalize Words either because they’re Important or because the writer gets Bored or something.
Germans capitalize nouns because that’s how you write them in German. It’s a rule of German grammar (not really style, since style can vary).
Zsofia may have given us a new usage. “Capslock,” meaning “one who resolutely uses a more difficult method,” or maybe it’s simply “capslock,” meaning “dimwad.” 
If you see that in a thread here, it means they typed the whole lot in caps and the board software changed it to Proper Case.
For Example This Post Was Typed Entirely In Caps
I think she’s talking about first-language English speakers who Do This Anyway, or capitalize random Words as if it were Winnie-the-Pooh who was Speaking.
I have to confess, I just realised I only ever use the left shift key. Don’t even know how/when I would ever use the right-hand one. Anyone suffer from this affliction too?
I remember doing this when I was about. . .eight, actually. I knew what the Caps Lock key did. Shift. . .not so much. Additionally, I was not particularly coordinated–holding down two keys at the same time really did seem hard.
If it works for someone, it works for someone. As long as the quality of their typing doesn’t suffer, there’s no harm to me.
EDIT–I do the same thing re: only using the left Shift key. The only time I use the right is when I’m typing one-handed. And, no, not that way…
Hmm. So how did John DiFool do all caps?
It’s not German grammar; it’s German punctuation. When people talk in German, you can’t hear whether or not they say a noun with an initial capital letter.
Yeah, I only use the left-hand shift key while typing. If I’m not mistaken, the right-hand shift key changes a bit depending on keyboard design.
It’s pretty mild as far as afflictions go! 
I’ve been trying to force my way out of this habit for a long time, with limited success… As a self-taught typist who went from two-finger hunt-and-peck through to a deliberate effort at stopping looking at the keyboard, I think it’s a hangover from when I would hold shift with the left hand, then search for the target letter with my dominant right hand. However it extended to often type capitals on the left side of the keyboard with a one-handed two-finger action.
Of course, I never touch the space bar with my left hand…
Yes, that’s what I meant. People who are neither Victorian letter writers nor native German speakers. People who are probably Very Emotional in Person.
No. I actually committ the other crime of using the shift keys to write out complete words with capital letters. It is not the most efficient way of doing things, but at least I don’t come back to the horror of having forgetten to turn the caps lock key off.
He didn’t. As long as one lowercase letter is in the post somewhere, then the software let’s the capitalization stand. It’s only when every letter is capital that the software makes its move.
What about the other characters that require the shift key? Caps Lock doesn’t turn “1” into “!”. So, if they use shift for those, why not for capital letters? That’s what’s not making sense to me.
Wait, we’re talking about masturbation now?
That made me laugh. I certainly do notice people who do this; there is a noticeable amount of it in my workplace, often by those fairly fresh out of university. I’m not sure if there really is any correlation between the two, or I’m just now paying attention to it.
I, too, thought the thread was going to be about people who insist on typing all in capital letters. I can’t say that I’ve ever noticed people typing a single capital by using the CAPS LOCK rather than the shift key. It would not have occurred to me to do that, well, not unless I had two malfunctioning shift keys or something.
See Mangetout’s post. Most keyboards have only one symbol on the letter keys, but two on the 1/! or 5/% keys, so there is a logical connection via the up-arrow shift key with the latter than the former.
IMO if a child hasn’t learnt the difference between upper and lower case correctly, then forget doing so at a keyboard, where every key features the upper case character but creates the lower case one :smack: