I like the uniformity of using all capital letters. Why is this rude? And, who made that decision for all of us? I recently used yahoo to ask a question written all in caps the way I like, and they said I was rude... WHAT?????????
2006-11-15 18:31:50 · 11 answers · asked by hunter98338 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
A boldface lie: "Hi, I'm here from the government, and I'd like to help". We type your names in all capital letters when we mail you anything, because in Business Law this denotes a corporation not a living being. The body of the letter to you is in capital and lower case letters. Everything the government does is legal, and done from a legal perspective. We are NOT yelling at you when we address you, merely being legal. You are a dead entity; a fiction, you only exist on paper or as an entry in a computer bank. It has nothing to do with Etiquette or yelling or any such nonsense as that. All caps denotes you, as far as we are concerned.
One more thing that may seem confusing to you, from a legal perspective.... Your address is not really the house number on the building you reside at. That information actually belongs to the Post Office, not to you. It is therefore their address, not yours.
Technically, as well as legally, you are addressed by your Christian name and your given name. To be legal and in good standing they should always be written out in capital letters and lower case letters in order to represent a living being. This also means no abreviations for your middle name, if you were given one. Example: John Q. Public should be written out as John Quincy, Public with a comma or semi-colon separating the given name from the family names....to be legal. Bottom line: your name is your address, not some numbers on a building.
Other uses on this site and others like it use the all caps because of the lack of emphasis available to the writer in this format. No color, font sizing, no underlining, no bold facing, etc. Hope this helps.
2006-11-16 03:04:19 · answer #1 · answered by jeeveswantstoknow 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A lot of people here say "Do what ever you want to, the hell with what other people think." Other people are concerned with others. It has well been established that capital letters are the same as shouting. Nobody wrote this, it is just accepted. So you can be a polite person and consider other people, or you can be a rude person and not care about other people. That of course is your choice.
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2006-11-16 02:06:37 · answer #2 · answered by Bacchus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When using all caps, it's considered to be virtual yelling or screaming. It's the equivalent to walking into a room and screaming in people's ears, which is rude.
2006-11-15 18:58:49 · answer #3 · answered by thezaylady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
general consensus decided it was rude a long time ago -- it is the typing version of yelling and yelling is rude. When you type in all caps it is also considered harder to read. Sans serif fonts like this one are usually better for titles and not blocks of text though. It is best to write text in serif fonts, save sans serif for titles and things like tables of contents and titles and use all caps for very short titles and single words you want to draw attention too -- like the way you used WHAT in your question.
2006-11-15 18:42:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can type it whichever way you want to. If someone said you were rude for using all capital letters, they are the one with the problems, not you. Type the way you want to.
2006-11-15 19:00:50 · answer #5 · answered by rosey 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
lol. I guess its open to interpretation. Most interpret it as shouting which is in turn seems as if you are demanding an answer. Which of course is rude.
But like I said, its all open to how to the person who reads it.
2006-11-15 18:41:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
all caps in print mean to emphasize the words in all caps, so online it means you are shouting, it's the same as the LOL abbreviations, it is agreed upon now and it's too late to change it
2016-03-28 22:10:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it depends on the context . Some people need to LIGHTEN UP!
2006-11-15 19:18:04 · answer #8 · answered by Julia B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i know i think that is stupid too, but i dont want anyone telling me i am yelling at them so i am going to type in all lowercase... in a truely free world we could type in any case we wanted to... :(
2006-11-15 18:55:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
when al gore invented the internet he also set down a few rules and this is one of them....myself i like to BREAK THE RULES !!!
2006-11-15 18:39:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋