What does it mean when people type in upper case letters?
An American wrote this, “The run
up was completely insane and obvious” (and scary). I was in the financial industry at the time, and everybody was figuring out how to protect themselves WHEN. C’s all about risk management.
I am not getting the meaning of WHEN in it.
I can get this microphone working quickly, but I can’t get the capital or the digit used in this text. Is there a way to ask people to use the equivalence in text form? Using all caps in text is a common convention indicating that the writer should be envisioned as shouting, or speaking in a louder than normal voice. As such, the connotation is slightly different from that of italics and fonts which indicate emphasis but are not necessarily intended to recall the spoken language. All caps were popularized by users of online forums, where written language is often used to approximate verbal conversations. What are conventions enabling and enabling accurate tonal cues? Other such conventions include,
- writing out discourse particles like uh and y’know to suggest that the writer is, y’know, waffling or being tentative
- who wrote out “stage directions” for oneself in brackets or parentheses, or by pretending to use the
IRC/me
command: “(/me runs away laughing diabolically)” - using strikethrough to humorously suggest that the writer accidentally wrote something he regrets and wants to take back, perhaps because
his readers are idiotsWhy can’t people use the ascii key combination / (H) -> (Single) and / (H + H as the prefix)? Most can use bold or italic to mark
all caps around the text. On older people like us we can type on typewriters, which didn’t provide options for bold or italic text. Underlining is also occasionally used in a similar way.
I can get this microphone working quickly, but I can’t get the capital or the digit used in this text. Is there a way to ask people to use the equivalence in text form? Using all caps in text is a common convention indicating that the writer should be envisioned as shouting, or speaking in a louder than normal voice. As such, the connotation is slightly different from that of italics and fonts which indicate emphasis but are not necessarily intended to recall the spoken language. All caps were popularized by users of online forums, where written language is often used to approximate verbal conversations. What are conventions enabling and enabling accurate tonal cues? Other such conventions include,
- writing out discourse particles like uh and y’know to suggest that the writer is, y’know, waffling or being tentative
- who wrote out “stage directions” for oneself in brackets or parentheses, or by pretending to use the
IRC/me
command: “(/me runs away laughing diabolically)” - using strikethrough to humorously suggest that the writer accidentally wrote something he regrets and wants to take back, perhaps because
his readers are idiotsWhy can’t people use the ascii key combination / (H) -> (Single) and / (H + H as the prefix)? Most can use bold or italic to mark
all caps around the text. On older people like us we can type on typewriters, which didn’t provide options for bold or italic text. Underlining is also occasionally used in a similar way.
I can get this microphone working quickly, but I can’t get the capital or the digit used in this text. Is there a way to ask people to use the equivalence in text form? Using all caps in text is a common convention indicating that the writer should be envisioned as shouting, or speaking in a louder than normal voice. As such, the connotation is slightly different from that of italics and fonts which indicate emphasis but are not necessarily intended to recall the spoken language. All caps were popularized by users of online forums, where written language is often used to approximate verbal conversations. What are conventions enabling and enabling accurate tonal cues? Other such conventions include,
- writing out discourse particles like uh and y’know to suggest that the writer is, y’know, waffling or being tentative
- who wrote out “stage directions” for oneself in brackets or parentheses, or by pretending to use the
IRC/me
command: “(/me runs away laughing diabolically)” - using strikethrough to humorously suggest that the writer accidentally wrote something he regrets and wants to take back, perhaps because
his readers are idiotsWhy can’t people use the ascii key combination / (H) -> (Single) and / (H + H as the prefix)? Most can use bold or italic to mark
all caps around the text. On older people like us we can type on typewriters, which didn’t provide options for bold or italic text. Underlining is also occasionally used in a similar way.