Question for the ages...

[fictional]

Why do non-capital letters in blogs so infuriate so many smart people?
I get (and participate) in the punctuation, grammar, spelling and netspeak issues. But capital letters? Is it just another way to tell the wheat from the tares? Is it an effort to stand firm against the crumbling of the English language when faced with the onslaught of illiterate AOL'ers? I really want to know.

Anyone want to give me a good reason to continue slowing down enough to hit the shift key?

Comments

[soulhaus.livejournal.com]

capital letters frighten me. i refuse to use them unless forced.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I know. perhaps i read too much e.e. cummings at too young an age.

[guinness-duck.livejournal.com]

I like captials. They reassure me. I don't know why. I just feel when I read something where a person doesn't bother to use capitals it's just a sign of a lack of intelligence. While I know this isn't the case with you, I think all lower case conveys that in a way.

Now in IM's I don't give two suqirts of piss about it. In blogging it really depends on the person doing the writing - but in the longer forms of writing I think capitals just look right, they convey a sense of caring about the words that you've chosen. Lower case seems to scream out, I can't take the time to actually care about my own thoughts, so why should you care about them?

Well that's my two cents.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I may be joining you in the capital letters thing, though i'm not sure yet. as I said in the reply above, it may have been an exposure to E.E. Cummings at too young an age.

[patashoqua.livejournal.com]

personally, i prefer all lowercase TO ALL CAPS.
I'm just sayin'.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

hee. Or Capitals At The Beginning Of Every Word.

Is it wrong that when my life is a giant pile of suck I keep retreating to that one really frightening LJ in an effort to make myself feel better, and it works?