Capitilization

[XnavxeMiyyep]

It makes me rather annoyed when people make errors in capitilization of specific things that we should all know how to capitilize.
Some examples:

It's iMac, not Imac
Mac, not MAC
GHz, and MHz, not ghz and mhz (a mHz would be one one thousandth of a Hz)
b is bit, and B is Byte

Those are the most irritating ones.

[arn]

Originally posted by XnavxeMiyyep
It makes me rather annoyed when people make errors in capitilization of specific things that we should all know how to capitilize..

Um... "capitalize"

"Hi, Pot? this is kettle, you're black" :)

arn

[Stelliform]

Heh, I thought that this was going to be a lecture on the free market. I prefer the lecture on the proper use of the shift key. :) I will stop typing now before I make a mistake and annoy you. ;) :p

[rainman::|:|]

i have no problem with capitalization whatsoever.

pnw

[mactastic]

Capitalist Pigs! All of you!:p

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by mactastic
Capitalist Pigs! All of you!:p ohh, we should have our communism debate again. post count additive this time!

about capitalization: don't be a b****. seriously. it doesn't matter. imac, ipod, ibook, suck it!

MAC! ghz! mhz! you can understand them all very easily. why must you fastidiously demand that in a place like this we should use all proper caps? why let it get to you? if you want to be annoyed by something that takes real thought to identify, start pointing out your friends' spoken grammatical errors as they make them. see how long your friends stick around.

the only one that actually matters on this site is Kb/KB, Mb/MB, and so on. and it only matters in certain cases, specifically when you are talking about transfer rates and bandwidth.

[Sun Baked]

These people may actually mean MAC, after all each Mac has it's own unique MAC (Media
Access Control) address.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Sun Baked
These people may actually mean MAC, after all each Mac has it's own unique MAC (Media
Access Control) address. true, but that's easy to tell from the context... if i asked you for your mac address, would you say 1 infinite loop? (assuming you weren't trying to be obnoxious)

[Kwyjibo]

but mac and MAC could bery easily mean a few different things ....i remember a thread like this about a year ago...people werent' happy then aND tHEY wON"T Be NoW

[Sun Baked]

Originally posted by shadowfax
true, but that's easy to tell from the context... if i asked you for your mac address, would you say 1 infinite loop? (assuming you weren't trying to be obnoxious) If you ask it that way, you'd probably end up with somebody's .Mac address.

But since I don't have a .Mac account, I cannot give you my .Mac address.

:p

[Durandal7]

The Mac/MAC captilizations throw me off sometimes since I associate Mac with Macintosh and MAC with MAC addresses. That's the only one that annoys me.

[XnavxeMiyyep]

Originally posted by Durandal7
The Mac/MAC captilizations throw me off sometimes since I associate Mac with Macintosh and MAC with MAC addresses. That's the only one that annoys me. That's the one that annoys me the most, along with the bits and bytes thing.

[wdlove]

Capitalization doesn't really bother me. Mainly because I try very hard to do it correctly myself!

[tpjunkie]

i AM tRyING to BUY an IMAC. bECause MACs arE cOOl. ghz aRE vERy ImPortaNT wHEN YOU BUY A NEw computER.


Dude. RELAX ;)

[Mr. Anderson]

I've even started sentences without capitals....;) there's really nothing wrong with it on a forum.

Now if you did the same thing in a professional correspondence, that would be something else. I'd have to agree with you if I received an email or letter that had grammar issues from a colleague or business correspondent. And its probably best to get it right as often as possible to avoid slips. But in general, around here its not that big a deal.

D

[scem0]

Capitols are okay. Im not going to make an active effort to get my capitalization (or spelling ;)) right, but if I notice something and it isn't a pain to correct then I'll correct it.

sCeM0 :)

[applemacdude]

HeY DoEs iT rEaLlY mAtTeR? gGhZ MhHz ImAc iBoOk

[XnavxeMiyyep]

It's not really the sentence structure that bothers me, it's just that when someone says, "My MAC is broken," or "I'm going to get a MAC," it irritates me.

[scem0]

Originally posted by XnavxeMiyyep
It's not really the sentence structure that bothers me, it's just that when someone says, "My MAC is broken," or "I'm going to get a MAC," it irritates me.

I can respect that, but I'm not going to make an effort to keep you from getting annoyed.

:)

scem0

[Daveman Deluxe]

I've always just typed with proper grammar and punctuation. I don't think it makes sense to do otherwise. I think our language is losing its richness as a result of folks typing "u n00b" and the like. If you think it doesn't matter, it does.

I've never understood why a lot of people don't use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation onlne. How could it possibly be so difficult to use your brain for a change? I blame it on Unix, where

man = manual
cd = change directory

et. al.

[jefhatfield]

t ome, it hink spa cing isa bigg er issuew ith me;)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by scem0
Capitols are okay. Im not going to make an active effort to get my capitalization (or spelling ;)) right, but if I notice something and it isn't a pain to correct then I'll correct it.

sCeM0 :) yeah, some capitols are nice. i like the capitol of texas, it's a pretty nice building. as you can definitely see, spalling is important too.

[mactastic]

I want a BIG MAC;)

[Mr. Anderson]

Well, MAC is an actual term and spelled in all caps - Media Access Control....

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MAC_address.html

So there's nothing wrong with that....;)

D

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Well, MAC is an actual term and spelled in all caps - Media Access Control....


hmm. kinda like sun baked said?

These people may actually mean MAC, after all each Mac has it's own unique MAC (Media
Access Control) address.

[eyelikeart]

hmm...

SPAM...

Spam...

spam...

sPam...

SPam...

spAm...

SPAm...

spaM...

spA...uh... ;)

[crenz]

To me, capitalization is just a part of proper spelling. Call me a snob, I usually don't make an effort to read posts with really poor grammar and/or spelling, since that (to me) indicates a lack of effort put into the text (and maybe even competence) by the writer. I don't expect it to be perfect (my English obviously isn't perfect as well, but then I'm not a native speaker), but I also don't see a reason to read posts which even the author didn't bother to reread before posting. That said, I haven't seen any really bad posts on MR. I mostly refer to other forums.

Obviously, things are different when I know somebody to be dyslexic or a non-native speaker of English.