Why Do People Type like This?

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

To my mind what is much worse IS WHEN THEY TYPE LIKE THIS…..all screaming, psycho capital letters…..

Anyway, re your OP and original question asked, no I can't say that I have noticed such a thing.

Moreover, if anyone was fool enough to write to me in such terms, they would rapidly receive a response that would leave my views on such matters quite clear.

Personally I found it just as annoying when posts like yours are in fonts that is not like the rest of the thread. It makes it stick out, and hurts my eyes. I usually skip those posts.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Personally I found it just as annoying when posts like yours are in fonts that is not like the rest of the thread. It makes it stick out, and hurts my eyes. I usually skip those posts.

Yes, but the topic of the thread is the excessive use of capital letters when writing.

We can discuss fonts elsewhere - which, to my mind, are a fascinating topic.

 

[Huntn]

Have you Noticed That Some People Tend to Type Messages in Caps Like This? Why is That?

I can't say I've noticed that other than thread titles where I would expect that. For one thing, it's more work.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Yes, but the topic of the thread is the excessive use of capital letters when writing.

We can discuss fonts elsewhere - which, to my mind, are a fascinating topic.

So I am not allowed to mention fonts, but you are allowed to mention formatting?

 

[citizenzen]

We can discuss fonts elsewhere - which, to my mind, are a fascinating topic.

Someone's being a little evasive.

It may be time we had a talk about your *ahem* little problem.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Someone's being a little evasive.

It may be time we had a talk about your *ahem* little problem.

Ah, damn. Called out on it. Tsk, tsk……..What can I do but put my hands up and plead guilty, m'lud?

Calibrating the grey areas of language and expression at the boundaries between the possible, the probable, the likely and the downright impossible are where I seem to spend much of my time these days, so it is not so surprising that this tendency sometimes seeps into my…….informal communications, as well…...

 

[iLog.Genius]

I tried to post in all caps but it didn't let me...didn't know the forum removes all caps.

 

[citizenzen]

Ah, damn. Called out on it. Tsk, tsk……..What can I do but put my hands up and plead guilty, m'lud?

Calibrating the grey areas of language and expression at the boundaries between the possible, the probable, the likely and the downright impossible are where I seem to spend much of my time these days, so it is not so surprising that this tendency sometimes seeps into my…….informal communications, as well…...

Admitting one has a problem is the first step on the road to recovery.

 

[FieldingMellish]

I tried to post in all caps but it didn't let me...didn't know the forum removes all caps.

It's all caps today. And all your diacritical marks tomorrow. Where will it end?

 

[Xiroteus]

No idea. I Only Do This For Topic Titles I Start

 

[cyb3rdud3]

I do this only for titles.

Same here. For titles I use Title Case (funny that how it is even called Title Case)

 

[Gregg2]

I also noticed that the biggest morons tend to be the proudest of their awesome spelling abilities.

That's not true. It's just a manifestation of your jealousy.

 

[impulse462]

So long as the message is readable

first mistake; People Who Type With Each First Letter Capitalized Make It Harder To Read Than Even In All Caps Or No Caps.

that was hard to write out

 

[Gutwrench]

I typed in all caps when I got out of the service. I quickly adjusted after reading several complaints. I didn't even realize typing in all caps was offensive. It's all I was used to.

 

[Gregg2]

You knw tht you can leve out leters and people can stil read what you've writen, as long as you hve the first and last leters showng.