Don't You Hate It When Someone Capitalizes Every Word In A Paragraph?

[kevbo]

^ Liar

You half mean it.

Besides, with everyone drooling over you on here, some of it is bound to go to your head at some point.

But I don't think it makes you a piece of shit

 

[star-warrior]

Good thing you don't read German...

 

[teadrinker]

There are lots of things which annoy me too, but thankfully I can ignore most of them. I simply can't read posts in which every word is capitalized, so I will be forever ignorant of their contents. At least people can't speak in ALL CAPITALS or With Every Word Capitalized. Fuck - imagine that!

Hmm, being annoyed by small things - with me that's usually a sign of a spot of depression. Eat well, and have a long hot bath.

-T.

 

[gsdx]

I don't understand when people nitpick on grammar and spelling. As long as the other person conveys what they mean, it's all good.

Why? Because it makes reading what they have written extremely annoying and frustrating and I end up not reading it at all. They convey nothing to me.

 

[G-Lexington]

Just because we find it hard to read a post that isn't spelled/capitalized/indented the way we're used to doesn't mean others do. Many of the younger set have been reading and writing like this all their lives - full paragraphs without a single capital letter or punctuation mark, or with all capitals. They don't have any trouble reading them. If you do, the problem lies squarely with you, not with them.

I know. "If they don't present their ideas in a easy-to-read form, it's tougher to read, and harder to understand." But perhaps that's the complete and utter point? The same way "the kids" wear their pants down to their knees - "if you've got a problem with it, fuck you - I don't want to deal with you anyway." This is THEIR way. A damned silly way to declare their individuality, I think - "punctuation is for old people!" - but then again, I feel the same way about pants-around-the-knees.

Lex

 

[Spiff]

I agree with Soil on this. I never understand why a few people routinely do this. And they are annoying to read, which is why I don't.

And someone mentioned it's similar to German. 1. If you're writing in English, then what is your point? 2. It's not like German. German caps all the nouns, not all the words.

 

[Soilwork]

"punctuation is for old people!" - but then again, I feel the same way about pants-around-the-knees.

Lex

DOn't be silly.

I'm old and i have my pants around my knees right now.

Mind you, someone's sucking my dick...

 

[G-Lexington]

Receiving blowjob AND posting on JUB simultaneously? Either you've become quite adept at multitasking, or he's really not any good at it.

(tap on head) "How do you spell 'simultaneously'?"
"(mumble)"
"Thanks."

Lex

 

[Pan-Am]

i never use caps

..... except, for some odd reason, in YouR NaMe!

 

[zingerz]

at least they're not using sticky caps!

 

[provenlogic]

what i hate even more than people not using paragraphs is people not using punctuation of any kind so that you don't know when a sentence ends and another begins and it becomes this one long run on text block and you feel so damned out of breathe by the time you're done reading it couple that with the fact that they don't capitalize either and don't use paragraphs and it's the most annoying thing in the world in the end you just have this great big block of text that might as well be gibberish because i can't read a word of it without pulling my hair out which i imagine is what some of you are doing right now and what's sad is that some of the people that do it are in the coming out forum and are in need of some serious advice but don't end up getting it because no one reads what the hell they've written or well at least i don't because it all looks like this can you imagine two or three pages of this how bad it would be to even attempt to read it admit it this alone has already driven you crazy and you feel like you should be out of breathe or something by now and that the person should have stopped this one thought but he hasn't and it just keeps going and going without end and it drivers me fucking crazy

 

[woaini]

Sometimes, it depends on where and how often

 

[gabriel1]

I Just Got An Email From A Member That Was About 18 Paragraphs Of Going On and On About Nothing And It All Looked Like This. Made Me Wanna Reach Through The Internet And Strangle Him.

Not to mention needing a few aspirin to get rid of the headache from reading it.

 

[StlKj]

what i hate even more than people not using paragraphs is people not using punctuation of any kind so that you don't know when a sentence ends and another begins and it becomes this one long run on text block and you feel so damned out of breathe by the time you're done reading it couple that with the fact that they don't capitalize either and don't use paragraphs and it's the most annoying thing in the world in the end you just have this great big block of text that might as well be gibberish because i can't read a word of it without pulling my hair out which i imagine is what some of you are doing right now and what's sad is that some of the people that do it are in the coming out forum and are in need of some serious advice but don't end up getting it because no one reads what the hell they've written or well at least i don't because it all looks like this can you imagine two or three pages of this how bad it would be to even attempt to read it admit it this alone has already driven you crazy and you feel like you should be out of breathe or something by now and that the person should have stopped this one thought but he hasn't and it just keeps going and going without end and it drivers me fucking crazy

Now see, read this out loud as it's written, and then pepper it liberally with the word "like," and you have struck upon one of my greatest pet peeves. As Dane Cook might say,

"it's the sound that makes me want to punch babies."

 

[floorrunner]

It's not nitpicking. It is very distracting to read things that are written like that.

 

[floorrunner]

Just because we find it hard to read a post that isn't spelled/capitalized/indented the way we're used to doesn't mean others do. Many of the younger set have been reading and writing like this all their lives - full paragraphs without a single capital letter or punctuation mark, or with all capitals. They don't have any trouble reading them. If you do, the problem lies squarely with you, not with them.

I know. "If they don't present their ideas in a easy-to-read form, it's tougher to read, and harder to understand." But perhaps that's the complete and utter point? The same way "the kids" wear their pants down to their knees - "if you've got a problem with it, fuck you - I don't want to deal with you anyway." This is THEIR way. A damned silly way to declare their individuality, I think - "punctuation is for old people!" - but then again, I feel the same way about pants-around-the-knees.

Lex

The problem is with the people writing incorrectly. Is it that difficult to take the time to learn to spell properly and puncuate? Is it that difficult to learn some basic grammar?

The way things are written can change the entire meaning.

 

[kevbo]

I just love the grammar and punctuation Nazi's, especially when they get their own grammar and punctuation wrong...

 

[Phydeaux]

My biggest message board peeve is the use of text abbreviations. Once again people, these are NOT words:
...

And who ever came up with the idea that "the" should be spelled "teh"? On some forums, it seems like its the norm, rather than good old fashioned "the".

"Teh" is not limited to the gaming community, but it is heavily used by gamers. Other abbreviations are used heavily because they save time. Take any first person shooter game for example... I play Unreal Tournament alot, and before I bought a microphone to communicate with regular players on a voice chat program, I regularly used abbreviated words:

"Teh FC needs cover."

If you take the time to spell out FC (Flag Carrier) that's an extra couple second that you are standing still and you leave your carrier unprotected.

Then consider how much more useful it is in a game like World of Warcraft:

"Axle is MT. Healz on Axle plz"
"MORE DOTS!!!"

When you're Main Tank goes down in a raid boss fight you need to quickly reassign a new main tank (MT) so they the healers know to keep them up. When you're in the middle of a 40 man boss fight... you don't have time to type everything correctly. One person failing can mean everyone fails.

The word "Teh" is mainly used as a joke. I use it often depending on what boards I'm currently spamming. A lot of people who use 1337 speech....:

(Elite => 'Lite => leet => 1337)

...will commonly use "teh" in jest simply because it's funny. If you aren't an avid gamer then you may not get the irony of being so elite that you can't even spell the word "the." Plus it's just plain easy to be typing very fast and switch a letter or two around.

 

[Backlum-Chaam]

Soil, there's a famous rule of movie reviewing.

If nothing happens in the first reel, nothing will happen in the entire movie.

Those reviewers obviously never saw "Titanic".

 

[TriBi]

In Case No One Realised...

If You Type A Message All In Caps (as I Have Just Done With This) Vbulletin Has A Feature Which Only Leaves The Capital At The Beginning Of Each Word - And Shows The Remainder In Lower Case.

A Sort Of Automatic "Shout Preventer".

Try It