Yes, absolutely. So you’re indeed a writer. May I ask why you use a lot of capital letters? Is that some kind of stylistic thing? 🤣

Oh did you not know? hahaha well you do now.
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Uh you mEAN LIKE THIS?

Because there are limited ways to express specific intonations, stress, tones of voice and/or voice/facial expression through single font text, and, I either can’t be bothered using the bold or italic htmls, or I think the mood of the comment doesn’t fit them or any of the other similar things I use, like *stars*.
I also see conversing thus as more like an actual conversation, and therefore trying to express how I speak through text is more important- in fictional writing I would not use capitals in the same way. In essays, I might, depending on the piece, because formal essay writing is for chumps.

If I were reading comments out loud there would be slight deviations in tone of voice for the different formats I use for stress.

I also use sPECIFICALLY the chOPPed cAPs to signify sarcasm quite often.
And These Kinds Of Caps as a different kind of stress and emphasis, and also to play into the idea of Proper Nouns and how that can be used basically, comedically in writing.

But also- it’s just fun. 😛

I also think- (you can correct me if I’m wrong, I’m not the most unbias audience of myself)- I think it makes my writing more fun to read.
If you can hear more expression and voice, I think it keeps people interested and engaged.
And I should hate to be boring 😉

You’ve got me wanting to analyse exactly where I use it and the why of each case now HAHAHAH (- there to show exuberance and a hearty laugh ofc… careful too much analysis could ruin the effect kekeke)

@sicarius You, and your writing are indeed interesting Sic. I asked about the capital letters ’cause I also think it made me become more interested in your comments. And yes, it had ThOSe effects on me as a reader as well. I analyze English as my work, so I find this very interesting. Who knows.. I might write about this in my paper in the future. I hope you’ll be kind enough to offer me some insights then. ^^ I also thought it was for fun, now it seems to have quite interesting academic implications.

I should take a screenshot of your explanation… would you mind?

And if I actually write about this topic, I’ll also give the credit to you so don’t worry. ^^

Hi!!! Sorry for late reply! I wanted to go into this more because I actually also find it really interesting but I was super tired last night when I saw your reply and needed to go to bed and spent most of today in a daze lol.

“You, and your writing are indeed interesting Sic.”-
Awww, why thank you hehehe
“I hope you’ll be kind enough to offer me some insights then. “-
Yes absolutely! I love talking about writing haha.
“I should take a screenshot of your explanation… would you mind?”-
Not at all! I would be honoured to be used as a source for and credited in an academic paper lmao!
May I ask what kind of work you do?

I was thinking about this a lot more, especially how I use bold in comparison to italics and capitals.
I think I tend to use bold as more of a formatting tool- because it’s the easiest way to make sections, headings, titles or parts of a list clear and distinct.
Italics on the other hand I use for when I want to emphasize the specific importance of something, rather than JUST a tone of voice change. It’s a different kind of stress than capitals, which I tend to use the most often and to indicate general changes in emphasis and tone of voice.
I rarely use bold for either, but when I do it’s to indicate when something is the MOST important; the thing I absolutely don’t want people to miss, something I want to make sure people definitely read or see.
Thus, bold is for most important, italics for more important, and capitals for general.
(an example of where I use all three would be my TCC final essay: https://www.dramabeans.com/members/sicarius/activity/734770/)

A lot of this is also related to “Internet Speak” as it were, the vocabulary and syntax and the way in which we have developed new language and formatting techniques in order to convey certain ideas across the internet.
I know I have picked up a lot of idiosyncrasies in my writing from my extensive internet usage, especially from tumblr. I don’t even have tumblr but yeah.

Oh also, I don’t know how long you’ve been following my posts for but if you wanted to check out more of my actual fictional writing in comparison, then there’s this:
part 1:https://www.dramabeans.com/members/sicarius/activity/1080572/
part 2: https://www.dramabeans.com/members/sicarius/activity/1086508/
part 3: https://www.dramabeans.com/members/sicarius/activity/1100307/
the formatting of the first issue is a bit wonky but I got it more regulated by the next two.
(If you’ve read that already then feel free to ignore lol)

I teach at a university and what I’m doing now (PhD which seems like an impossible mission to accomplish) seems to provide a lot of opportunities for doing research on a number of topics. I’m interested in language teaching, and something related to linguistics and language in use. This is actually the first time I experience seeing someone on the internet having her VErY own writing style with which everyone seems to be ok.

I only published 1 though a couple of years ago, but this is just in case. 😉 These days I’m so super busy I can’t explain in words, but you’ve provided me with something interesting so I’m looking forward to the time when I’m free enough to start delving into this a bit more.

You’re so kind and I appreciate this.