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ALL CAPS

MY DISCLAIMER ABOUT ME USING "ALL CAPS".
     THE REASON I DID THIS IS BECAUSE A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO I WENT TO 1 OF THOSE MESSAGE BOARDS, FOR HELP GETTING MY GAME TO RUN RIGHT. ALL OF THE PEOPLE THERE MADE COMMENTS LIKE, "WHY R U SHOUTING, ANGRY, & YELLING. U NEED TO JUST CALM DOWN ETC. & THEY WERE ACTUALLY GETTING UPSET & SAYING THAT IF I WAS GOING TO BE THAT WAY". "THAT I WAS NOT GETTING HELP & I SHOULD LEAVE THAT SITE". CAN U BELIEVE THAT?! SO BELOW IS MY REPLY TO THEIR ACCUSATIONS......
     EVERYTHING SAID BELOW IS MEANT TO BE TAKEN LIGHT HEARTILY, & NOT PERSONALLY. IF PEOPLE DO THEN IT'S ON THEM & THEY MIGHT THINK OF LIGHTENING UP. BECAUSE IN REALITY THESE ARE ONLY TEXTS, THERE ARE NO ACTUAL SOUNDS, NO ONE IS PHYSICALLY COVERING THEIR EARS WHILE READING THIS, SAYING "OH MY GOD THE SOUND IS HURTING!!!!". AS YOUR QUOTES STATES, "Imagine Someone Shouting All the Time". THE KEY WORD BEING "IMAGINE". WHEN I SEE CAPS I DON'T THINK WOW THAT "It is a strong effect OR why r they so angry". IF READING ALL CAPS TEXTS IS NOT UR THING I UNDERSTAND, BUT IF IT PHYSICALLY/MENTALLY AFFECTS YOU, THEN U SHOULD GET A CHECK UP BECAUSE IT COULD BE A HARMFUL BRAIN DISORDER.
     WHAT MAKES SOMETHING A STRONG "EFFECT/STATEMENT/YELLING" IS THAT ONE CHARACTER PUT ON TYPEWRITERS SINCE THE START OF THE 1970's & THAT IS THE " ! " KEY (Exclamation mark or shft+1), (BEFORE THE 70's "one typed a period, backspaced, and typed an apostrophe). SO WHETHER I TYPED IN CAPS OR LOWER CASE YOU WOULD KNOW THE EMPHASIS WAS ON THE PRECEDING TEXT, EXAMPLE: "i hate you!" , "I HATE YOU!". EVEN THOUGH THE CAPS IS EASIER TO READ/SEE YOU STILL GET THE POINT WITH THE LOWER CASE. ALSO I DOUBT THE "CAPS LOCK" KEY WAS INVENTED FOR THAT TYPIST WHO WANTED "LOUD OR AGGRESSIVE TEXTS". THERE IS ENOUGH YELLING, ANGER, ETC IN REAL LIFE, WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE TO ATTACH IT TO A TYPING PREFERENCE/STYLE. THAT'S PRETTY PATHETIC.
     YES I UNDERSTAND "lower case" IS "more widely accepted than all caps". TO ME IT'S HARDER TO READ OR PROOF TEXTS WHEN IN LOWER CASE, I DO NOT FIND IT "faster and more convenient", IT ALL COMES DOWN TO, I PREFER USING ALL CAPS FOR MY EASE OF READING, TYPING, & EDITING ETC. BASICALLY I CAN SEE THE LETTERS BETTER, WITH LOWER CASE I HAVE TO EITHER INCREASE THE PAGE ZOOM OR PUT GLASSES ON. I ALSO WRITE IN ALL CAPS & HAVE SINCE J.H.S. I TOOK 3 YRS OF DRAFTING.
     IF I HAVE ACTUALLY OFFENDED, DAMAGED HEARING, OR PERSONALLY HURT FEELINGS BECAUSE U THOUGHT I WAS YELLING AT YOU, I APOLOGIZE. SO FROM NOW ON YOU WILL KNOW I'M NOT "VIRTUALLY YELLING" I JUST HAVE AN EYE SIGHT ISSUE/DISABILITY, & VIRTUALLY OR IN REALITY IT IS NOT CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE TO PUBLICLY CHASTISE, PUT DOWN, OR BLAME MY NEED/WANT TO USE ALL CAPS, DUE TO ONES HANDICAP/DISABILITY OR JUST THE FACT I LIKE USING ALL CAPS...LOL LOL......
   THANK YOU FOR "LISTENING" TO MY REPLY TO A WIDELY ACCEPTED BUT MISGUIDED VIEW ON THE REAL ATTRIBUTES OF "ALL CAPS TEXTS". SO AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT SEE A " ! " AFTER SOMETHING TRY NOT TO READ ANYTHING INTO WHAT IS REALLY JUST TEXT IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS...   WES
     FOR THOSE OF U THAT JUST CAN'T LET GO OF THE WHOLE "CAPS" IS "YELLING" THING.
    ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS...... "i'm sorry", OH THAT'S ME WHISPERING FOR ALL THE "VISUALLY" NOISE SENSITIVE PEOPLE...

    IF U STILL BELIEVE IN UR "ALL CAPS IS YELLING" ETC. BELOW IS THE ACTUAL DEFINITION & LINK:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark
The exclamation mark (British English and Commonwealth English) or exclamation point (American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate STRONG FEELINGS or HIGH volume (SHOUTING), and often marks the end of a sentence.
Written by wesser1
Published | Edited 28th Jan 2020
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