I asked the same thing a while back:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151907&highlight=caps
Does that Miami U study address those languages which do not have upper & lower case symbols?
The MU study was concerning English only.
Because a baseball cap is a hat, and it’s rude for a gentleman to wear his hat indoors. (Unless he is Jewish.)
Someone once asked Paul “Bear” Bryant why he took off his cowboy hat when he entered the Astrodome. He said it was because Mrs. Bryant, Senior, had always told him that a gentleman takes his hat off indoors.
Lucky e.e.
Er, let’s call on Nikki.
ever been kidnapped
by a poet
if i were a poet
i’d kidnap you
put you in my phrases and meter
you to jones beach
or maybe coney island
or maybe just to my house
lyric you in lilacs
dash you in the rain
blend into the beach
to complement my see
play the lyre for you
ode you with my love song
anything to win you
wrap you in the red Black green
show you off to mama
yeah if i were a poet i’d kid
nap you
Should that be Bum Phillips? Bryant wore a fedora. Phillips wore a cowboy hat.
For some reason, I “hear” Bobcat Goldthwaite (sp?)when I see stuff typed like that.
Totally OT here, but do we have two people in SDMBs with “corndog” in their nickname? Seems to me that I’ve seen other posts by someone who also had corndog in their nickname.
It also seems that the “original” corndog was wellspoken and intelligent, But, I could have just imagined it.
punctuation really why bother i cant see the point can you see the point actually i think we should do away with written communication altogether and just switch to mind reading
I don’t like typing at all in any form. So from now on I’ll just yell my words at the monitor.
Oh and ditto on the baseball cap thought.
What a bunch of wiener whiners-on another board that I frequent, we are blessed with a nutcase who insists on communicating like this:
i just LOVE 
my HORSES…and their… so much… FUN… to RIDE…and TRAIN:D 
…and your’e to jealous of them :rolleyes: :mad: 
…and whether YOU like:( :mad: it…or NOT…this is HOW i talk… 
and irregardless of HOW…many people;) it ANNOYS…:wally… :smack: …:dubious: i won’t change:cool: 
I’ve given up trying to explain how fucking annoying it is to even try and translate her babble.
You could have just described it, jlzania. Was it really necessary to inflict that upon us?
isntittruethatalongtimeagoinvariouseuropeanandmiddleeasternlanguagestherewerenocapitallettersandtherewerenospacesorparagraphsandhardlyanypunctuationatallimeanforheavenssakesomelanguageslikehebrewdidntevenhavevowelshowinthehellareyousupposedtokickbackandreadwhenthewriterclearlydoesntseemtohaveanyconsiderationforthereaderatall
Consideration. That’s the word I’m looking for, corndog man. A good writer shows consideration for the reader. Your failure to show consideration means that I’m just going skip right over any posts you make that are in all caps. It’s bloody annoying to read, besides.
You’ve made my night; thank you, I needed that laugh. And I don’t see that concept leaving me too soon, either.
N O W I D I S A G R E E W I T H A L L Y O U P E O P L E W H O A R E G E T T I N G P E R T U R B E D A T T H E O P . A F T E R A L L , I S N ’ T H E E N T I T L E D T O F R E E D O M O F E X P R E S S I O N , T O O ? F O R S H A M E ! Y O U ’ R E J U S T T R Y I N G T O S T I F L E A F R E E S P I R I T ! ! !
Using letters is too hard. From now on I’m
IT’S ALSO A GREAT SPACE-SAVING FEATURE FOR PROPORTIONAL SPACED FONTS.
It’s also a great space-saving feature for proprotional spaced fonts.
kniht uoy t’nod, gniyonna erom neve si sihT.
Jyst bicoysi e wontid ta, e rimavid ond swoppid thi ‘O’ ond ‘A’ kiucops an mu kiubaord - e ded thi somi weth ‘I’ ond ‘E’, olsa ‘Y’ ond ‘U’
E WONT THI FRIIDAM TA BI O CAMPLITI ORSIWET LEKI THES. GAD THES ES SA PAENTLISS. HAW DYMB ET ES. SAMI OSSHALI WETH VAECIS EN HES HIOD SOED THES WOS CANFYSENG OND THI WHALI ENTIRNIT CAMMYNETU BILEIVIS HEM.
et’s jyst kiucops oftir oll.
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For the Aussies, you know, it’s easier for them…