DID YOU LEAVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY ON? USING ALL CAPS CAN BE PERCEIVED AS SHOUTING...?

haha! I get so mad whenever Y!A tells me that! I'll be like WTF I get it, I did it on purpose!!

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Perception has nothing to do with it. All caps has just evolved as a de facto audio cue for saying something loudly in online text since the usual audio cues are missing. So ... most people understand all caps to mean shouting. Of course, you may have your own private perception of what all caps should really mean but it would not be useful since you would then be out of sync with everyone else. To illustrate, suppose you feel that the word "idiot" refers to a person of great virtue, and suppose you went with that and complimented someone else with that term, surely you would not expect a warm reception with that since "idiot" is not commonly understood to be a complimentary word. So understanding the de facto conventions and definitions in discourse is important.

No.

I use caps occasionally for emphasis.

If I want to shout I don't need to hit any keys.

NO MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS MISSING

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no i actually hate to type in caps lock and hate when people do it. it does look like your shouting and i only do it when im trying to get something across or IM ACTUALLY SHOUTING!

YEAH I KNOW SO WHEN I ACSIDENTALLY LEAVE THE CAPS ON PPL THINK I AM MAD AT THEM

NO I DON'T THINK ITS SHOUTING BECAUSE IF I WAS SHOUTING THEN I WOULD BE SHOUTING!!! I'M NOT SHOUTING!!!

Oh God, that looks so troll like doing that... :-(

NO I NEVER LEAVE CAPS LOCK ON.

I hate J31899!

shut uuuuup your hurting my earzzzzz

yes i did