[Yaesu] Re: Yaesu digest; 440 UHF FM Rig

[Jon Ogden]

To say that upper case = shouting 100% of the time is to be immature
yourself.  There is a lot that can be read into an e-mail by the overall
nature of what the person is saying.  I can be extremely aggressive w/o ever
holding the caps key down.  Our friend Nick here, innocently typed a message
in upper case and he gets the Gestapo coming down his rear end for it.

Caps can also show emphasis.  And sentences can change meaning in English
(and other languages simply by the emphasis put on words.)  For example take
this sentence:

I didn't steal the money.

Look how the meaning can change:

I DIDN'T steal the money.
I didn't STEAL the money.
I didn't steal THE money.
I didn't steal the MONEY.

That's NOT yelling.  And I emphasized the word "not" here to get my point
across.

To universally try to enforce a standard like this is ludicrous and
immature.  So perhaps you should grow up.

73,

Jon
NA9D

oh, yeah - I must be "yelling" my call there!




on 12/18/02 6:53 AM, Mike Urich, KA5CVH at ka5cvh@ka5cvh.com wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>> I never read SHOUTING, and I know a lot of others who do the same.
>> 
>> WA1WLA
> 
> 
> 
> Mike wrote
> 
> You may not and that's fine with me.  However surveys have shown that most
> people do consider typing in all caps to be shouting and most people
> consider typing in either all caps or all lower case to be immature.  So I
> can only assume it would depend upon how you would like people to perceive
> you.
> 
> Surveys say,
> 
> Mike Urich,   KA5CVH
> www.ka5cvh.com
> LaPorte TX   EL-29

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Jon Ogden
NA9D (ex: KE9NA)

Citizen of the People's Democratic Republik of Illinois

Life Member: ARRL, NRA
Member:  AMSAT, DXCC

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"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."