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Re: No, and no
I would not have considered the word "jerk" much less called you one, even in my own mind, if you had not added those sentences.I do not believe that shouting in public and typing with the caplock on (even though now, as you have educated me, it is equated as shouting in Cyberland) are comparable, but I do understand what you mean when you say (paraphrase in my words) "Just seeing all caps sounds like someone shouting down my face!". There have been times when I have listened to someone speak and some time later if I pick up a book the person has written, I can hear them speaking to me as if they were right before me. What is a punctuation pet? Is it like your pet peeve?
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Caps is shouting, period.For people who use the internet on a regular basis, especially those who use e-mail, chatrooms, and message boards, its shouting. I very, very rarely type in all caps. Not to mention that I, too, "hear" messages typed in caps as yelling. Siri
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A punctuation pet is a punctuation mark you treat as a "pet". In practice, they actually mostly sit there and look cute. But while doing that they serve as a reminder not to overuse--abuse--punctuation on this board, or else someone will rescue your suffering punctuation and put them up for adoption to good homes.This board--in fact, most of the Internet really--is public, and therefore I think my comparison is absolutely dead-on. But let's just drop that, shall we?In fact, if we want to continue any of this, we should go to the Lounge because this is terribly off-topic on this board.
Miranda
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I was just curious.sr
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