Funny -- all these attempts to explain why people don't like it, and the one sensible one, that all caps has gradually come to mean shouting to most people, is lost in the chatter. One of my friends, originally through LJ, now in RL, writes in caps a lot -- if you know her IRL, you know that she actually talks that way -- you can almost see when her conversation moves into capslock. But if you didn't know that she actually sounds like that, you might think she was shouting. Well, actually she is. But not in an angry way, just in a loud and effusive way.
I used to teach business writing to Germans as one of my ESL courses, and we did a lot of work on which verbs and moods one used in particular situations. Maybe this needs to be taught as well -- just as we try to teach our students that we use language differently among friends to the way we speak and write in professional situations.
Goodness knows, even on LJ many of us folk who should be able to think in context sometimes have trouble reading tone!
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Date: 2009-09-06 02:15 pm (UTC)I used to teach business writing to Germans as one of my ESL courses, and we did a lot of work on which verbs and moods one used in particular situations. Maybe this needs to be taught as well -- just as we try to teach our students that we use language differently among friends to the way we speak and write in professional situations.
Goodness knows, even on LJ many of us folk who should be able to think in context sometimes have trouble reading tone!