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Alternating upper-case letters - WrItTeN LiKe ThIs

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Postby mike » September 15th, 2020, 9:17 am

I'm seeing phrases written as alternating upper- & lower case letters in some social media, and cannot work out the significance of this.

DoEs AnYoNe KnOw ?

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Re: Alternating upper-case letters - WrItTeN LiKe ThIs

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Postby didds » September 15th, 2020, 9:34 am

an attempt to confuse bots checking for "unacceptable" stuff ?

I'm not convinced by that theory but I cant think of anything else :-)

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Re: Alternating upper-case letters - WrItTeN LiKe ThIs

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Postby robbelg » September 15th, 2020, 10:39 am

I think it's meant to indicate a sarcastic tone of voice.

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Re: Alternating upper-case letters - WrItTeN LiKe ThIs

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Postby Stompa » September 15th, 2020, 12:02 pm


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Re: Alternating upper-case letters - WrItTeN LiKe ThIs

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Postby absolutezero » September 15th, 2020, 12:10 pm

It's sarcasm.

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Re: Alternating upper-case letters - WrItTeN LiKe ThIs

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Postby Mike4 » September 15th, 2020, 12:27 pm

I think sometimes its a bug in some sort of program computers use to display text.

I first noticed this in boiler instruction manuals downloaded from a boiler manual library a few years ago. The manuals for the Ideal brand of boilers in particular often had the paragraph titles displayed with alternating upper and lower case, the title fonts normally being a little different i.e. in bold, bigger size, etc. The body of the text was never affected and nor are the original printed manuals actually supplied with the boilers, so I think it is something to do with the HTML mark-up clashing with the program creating the PDFs.

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Re: Alternating upper-case letters - WrItTeN LiKe ThIs

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Postby kiloran » September 15th, 2020, 12:31 pm

robbelg wrote:I think it's meant to indicate a sarcastic tone of voice.

Rob

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Re: Alternating upper-case letters - WrItTeN LiKe ThIs

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Postby Itsallaguess » September 15th, 2020, 12:46 pm

It's been around for quite some time.

tHeRe's mAnY OnLiNe gEnErAtOrS AvAiLaBlE -

https://jemimaabu.github.io/mocking-text/

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Re: Alternating upper-case letters - WrItTeN LiKe ThIs

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Postby mike » September 15th, 2020, 3:04 pm

OK, thanks all. And like Kiloran, not something I would have guessed at all.

My question was prompted by a tweet I saw this morning from a WSJ journalist, but can I find it now to re-read it in context. Not a chance !

Thanks again.

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Re: Alternating upper-case letters - WrItTeN LiKe ThIs

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Postby kiloran » September 15th, 2020, 3:16 pm

Itsallaguess wrote:It's been around for quite some time.

tHeRe's mAnY OnLiNe gEnErAtOrS AvAiLaBlE -

https://jemimaabu.github.io/mocking-text/

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Itsallaguess

NOW you tell me! It was a real pain typing it out manually :cry:

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Re: Alternating upper-case letters - WrItTeN LiKe ThIs

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Postby bionichamster » September 15th, 2020, 6:46 pm

Mike4 wrote:I think sometimes its a bug in some sort of program computers use to display text.

I first noticed this in boiler instruction manuals downloaded from a boiler manual library a few years ago. The manuals for the Ideal brand of boilers in particular often had the paragraph titles displayed with alternating upper and lower case, the title fonts normally being a little different i.e. in bold, bigger size, etc. The body of the text was never affected and nor are the original printed manuals actually supplied with the boilers, so I think it is something to do with the HTML mark-up clashing with the program creating the PDFs.


Sarcastic boiler instructions!


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