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to flinch when people use random capitals in sentences??

121 replies

GreenSepticStumpsleeves · 10/10/2007 13:44

as in "I told her we were going to buy a Guinea Pig, but all she did was scream and ask for a Rabbit"

Stop it, all of you!! Stop it now!!

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bossybritches · 10/10/2007 13:45

YANBU !

IMHO

A bit irrational maybe but totally reasonable!!!!!

NomDeBroomstick · 10/10/2007 13:45

I think it's time you stopped being so Silly, tbh

Tutter · 10/10/2007 13:46

ah

i assume aitch's patented Use of Capitals for Comedic Effect is exempt...?

GreenSepticStumpsleeves · 10/10/2007 13:59

Gah, don't even do it in jest NDP

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GreenSepticStumpsleeves · 10/10/2007 14:00

capitals for comedic effect, eg "that would be a Very Bad Idea" are exempt.

it's idiots who put things like "ds2 has forgotten his Lunch Box again" who need a bullet.

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MyTwopenceworth · 10/10/2007 14:02

It's for Emphasis, m'dear. YABU. I for one will not give it up. Oh No.

oliveoil · 10/10/2007 14:02

YaNbU

tBh

ImO

hunkermunker · 10/10/2007 14:02

ROFL!

Make my Teeth itch too, they do.

bossybritches · 10/10/2007 14:34

Oooh nit-picky grammar purist thread-love it!! (yes I do need to get out more.)

How about ,

potatoe's

tomatoe's

vancancy's

UnquietDad · 10/10/2007 14:36

Oh, I sEe, I tHoUght you meaNt like tHis.

DoctorFrankenSquonk · 10/10/2007 14:37

what's a vancancy?

DoctorFrankenSquonk · 10/10/2007 14:38

Is it an empty ford transit?

SharpMolarBear · 10/10/2007 14:39

yes I thought you meant like ThIs as WeLl - very odd See what you mean now. I think sometimes it's assumed that all nouns have a capital letter.

bozza · 10/10/2007 14:40

LOL UQD so did I. We get e-mails like this from security.

UnquietDad · 10/10/2007 14:42

Of Course, They Do In German.

What annoys me is when people use "inverted commas" when they want to "emphasise" something. I was proofing a manuscript the other day in which the author had put every vaguely "metaphorical" expression in "inverted commas". Like this:

'I knew everyone would "pull together" and that we would all be "singing from the same hymn sheet" before too long.'

And I have to say, after 200 pages of this it was driving me "up the wall."

DoctorFrankenSquonk · 10/10/2007 14:46

UD - tis better than when you are faced with someone, in person, who does the inverted comma thing with the first two fingers of each hand, in the air - you know what I mean - tis tres irritating.

bossybritches · 10/10/2007 14:47

Vancancy was MY typo sorry!!!

SharpMolarBear · 10/10/2007 14:48

don't you mean "irritating"?
sorry

VeniVidiVickiQV · 10/10/2007 14:49

yEs, YAbU.

You ClearlY hAve "Too Much Time On Your Hands".

Go bUsY yOurSelF with sOmeThing WorthWhile InstEad of "criticising" everyone Else.

bossybritches · 10/10/2007 14:50

God yes the "quote marks" grrrrrrr!

ThreadyKrueger · 10/10/2007 14:51

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littlelapin · 10/10/2007 14:51

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 10/10/2007 14:51

I loooooooooove "quote marks".

ScaremyVile · 10/10/2007 14:55

I do it all the time, I Shit on your Pedantry.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 10/10/2007 14:56

LOL JV