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Many people have no idea that “all CAPS” constitutes “yelling” and irritates some people. Why does it bother people though? No one is actually “yelling”, and so long as the content of the post is respectful and appropriate, may I ask WHY IT MATTERS? (see, did that hurt anyone’s virtual ears?)
<<whisper>> divrei chachamim b’nachas nishma’in
(Why do you need to know? You indicated that in 8.5 hours it won’t be nogea)
WHEN A PERSON LITERALLY WRITES EVERY WORD IN CAPITAL LETTERS IT GIVES THE IMPRESSION THAT HE OR SHE IS REALLY DESPERATE FOR ATTENTION. IT ALSO COMES OFF AS MANIC AND/OR HYSTERICAL. IT IS THEREFORE NOT ONLY RUDE BUT SELF-DEFEATING.
This is not the same thing as CAPITALIZED PHRASES within an otherwise normative sentence.
I perceive all caps writing as yelling unless it’s in context like “TOMORROW” in Eclipse’s post. I know people (non-business contacts) who tend to write “HELLO?!” if I don’t write back to an email within the amount of time they’d like. (For some, that’s five minutes.) That annoys me a lot. They should know not to disturb me while I’m on the CR!
It is also a little harder on the eyes (at least for me) to read all caps. To emphasize a phrease or word, is fine, though.
I prefer italics, but when that’s not so easy, I tend to put *asterisks* around words I want to emphasize. 🙂
HURRAY!!! (oops, that was yelling)
We’ll be having Eclipse for another day (are punctuation marks also considered yelling?) !!!
Oh Shreck! – is my name. Everyone calls me that. Whenever anyone sees me they say that, must be my name. And yes, it’s done mostly by yelling.
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