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Message board > Good manners
Good manners
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viccxx
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Good manners
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Please everybody, stop using capital letter when you type...In computer language it �s like shouting at everybody. We �re all friends here, right? |
22 May 2010
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Nebal
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Dear Viccxx,
Well, you�re talking about Netiquette.In internet conventions, Capital letters are classed as shouting. I do understand that they have an angry connotation, as if you are screaming it instead of saying it. For example, if someone said �hey, whats up?� opposed to �HEY, WHATS UP?� , the capital letters make the person look hyper or anxious.
However, I don �t think that some members who use caps mean any kind of bad manners, plus I don�t take it as offensive. On my part, I may use big letters to emphasize a point, or I highlight things to attract others � attention. Well, I think it �s related to each one �s way of expression .
Just a thought.....
Best wishes,
Nebal
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22 May 2010
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donapeter
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I use them to highlight smth, to underline (  ) smth important. |
22 May 2010
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banska bystrica
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Hello,
I �ve never meant using capital letters for expressing of saying something loudly or shouting. I think it always goes with the context, if you mean it as emphasizing or shouting... I think it �s different when you type, for instance, "PAST SIMPLE" and "STOP IT PLEASE", isn �t it?
I cannot see any good reasons why to limit (forbid?) using capital letters on the forum and why to push people to avoid them... It �s like saying, "hey everybody, let �s only have nice and smiling avatars"
After all, I think that what is more important is the context, the form is second.... or?
kind regards,
ZUZANA :)))
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22 May 2010
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GIOVANNI
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By error when I registered on the site I used capital letters for my name. I did not want to emphasise anything it was just a mistake. I would have to agree with ZUZANA to me there is a difference depending on what you type. |
22 May 2010
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blunderbuster
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Hey Viccxx, your picture scares me. May I kindly ask you to change it? ;o)
Caps means shouting?! Who made that a rule? One person said it and the other believed it? Some places don �t give you any other way to emphasize part of what you are saying.
GIOVANNI, you can change your username into giovanni ;o) The systems allows you to do so.
Regards
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22 May 2010
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anitarobi
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...perhaps people mean to shout ...sometimes...
I respect rules, but sometimes you just need to emphasize stuff. I believe we have become a bit too touchy about some unimportant things, due to all kinds of stress... no offence, Viccxx, I �m sometimes too touchy about some things as well, and then later on it seems like I made a mountain out of a molehill. I respect your opinion, but I agree with Zuzana - it should be about what is being said, not what the letters look like! |
22 May 2010
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