Why Are People Not Capitalizing Words?

Question

You do capitalize each word in the subject of a messege.

Bush_is_an_idot is not my name. Yahoo ANSWERS is set up so the question is the subject.

Answer 1

My opinion is that people are lazy. But that's just my opinion.

Answer 2

One of the reasons is that some people are too busy to press the Caps Lock key on the keyboard, that is, they need to race against time! I was mildly surprised when I received some short notes via email from a prestigious professor from a world-class university to me some years ago.

However, the messages without capitalization are cute, simple and modest, I mean, they represent the 'self' of the writer, maybe he/she's communicated with you by means of normal, simple lines of sentences with equality. In other words, every word is equal, no letter is capitalized.

For instance, just read and compare these two sentences:

1. You know what I mean.
2. you know what i mean.

Obviously, they represent quite different communicative senses regarding the symbols of communication the writer's intended to express.

Again, No.1 represents the traditional way of writing under grammatical rules while No. 2 seems to be like a rebel against the rules, in short, they don't care what the grammar rigidly dictates. Rather, they seem to do something to show what they can communicate with ease (i.e. no time to press the key, please understand) to the message receiver with their intrinsic power that the reader needs to read carefully to understand and take action, or else?

Answer 3

Grammar, even proper grammar, is in constant change. As usage dictates, the grammarians revise the grammar rules accordingly.

Case in point...some years ago, one of the American dictionaries actually added "aint" to its lexicon...in recognition that many, if not most, Americans used that word in every day conversation.

Strunk and White; and Turabian are classic textbooks on writing, including grammar. For example, one of them (I've forgotten which one) specifies that your capitalization in the question is incorrect...the "Are" and "Not" should not be capitalized because they are less than four letters long and they are minor words.

Turns out that capitalization rules are not universal from language to language. So people coming from other countries would likely be unaware of American rules. For some languages, "Why are people not capitalizing words," would be correct as a title. With the widely diverse ethnicity of the U.S., it is not surprising that our unique grammar rules are busted from time to time.

To my way of thinking, a more important question to ask is "Where has the object of the preposition gone?" We hear all the time on radio and TV "For you and I..." The grammar I learned specifies "for...me" where me is the object of the preposition. Yet newscasters, who should know better, continually say "for...I" Why is that? Has the rule changed?

Answer 4

Why do you capitalize deaf? edit: hey Rickey stfu and stop trying to sound like a smart badass, because you're failing badly at that.

Answer 5

It is not the subject of a message. It is a question.

Answer 6

This is coming from a person that didn't use capitalization in his/her own name?? This is not a grammar exercise.

Answer 7

Chuck Norris Says; "STFU".

Answer 8

Hows This? STFU

Answer 9

its just quicker and its not like were writing a letter to some political person!!!!!

Answer 10

MESSAGE is spelled with an "A" before the "G".