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Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by salawat on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:49AM (#26671386)
I don't understand people that read ALL CAPS as shouty, and in fact, it was ine of my first culture clashes on HN. I find the italicized emphasis mode to be harder to read and recognize.

Maybe it seems so odd to me because there are so many licenses, contracts, or government forms that use ALL CAPS as emphasis. I don't know.

It just doesn't translate to shouty in reading mental voice.

Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by Sharlin on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:43AM (#26671795)
Yeah, it's probably just you.

To me (and probably most others), license texts and such absolutely look like they are shouting. I do not understand whence the convention of having them in ALL CAPS, and can only assume it's in itself some sort of a cultural association between ALL CAPS and IMPORTANCE. I have only seen it in English legal texts, anyway – is it even used in other languages? It looks to me like ALL CAPS was originally used to emphasize key points, and then an inevitable race to the bottom happened until EVERYTHING WAS IMPORTANT which really means that nothing is important.

When it comes to typography, nearly every type of emphasis employed in Western text except italics (and sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘs, which see too little use these days methinks) only exist due to technological limitations, particularly the extremely limited typographic options available to typewriters and, later, 7- or 8-bit text terminals. This includes ALL CAPS, s p a c i n g, and u͟n͟d͟e͟r͟l͟i͟n͟e͟d͟, never mind ASCII crutches like /pseudoitalics/, _pseudounderlined_, and ∗pseudoboldface∗.

Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by drewzero1 on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:40PM (#26673065)
I don't tend to read it as shouting unless the contents are clearly angry. I've always seemed to parse it as more of a monotone 80s/90s computer voice. I think growing up using DOS and BASIC made me just associate all-caps with computers.

Honestly I'm a little surprised that people who've likely seen their share of BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME would still read that as shouting.