Genealogy Chat

Something that bugs me more than people who write all in lower case is when they capitalise the first letter of ever word of what they write. It Really Drives Me Nuts! lol. I've not seen anyone do it on here, but on another forum I'm on there are several people who have such terrible grammar it makes me cringe. At university there were some of the second years writing their applications for work placements and the like and I couldn't believe the poor state of grammar and spelling. I think so much effort is put into testing and silly things at school and not enough on teaching proper English. That said, I've had to teach myself since leaving school as the teachers were too busy getting us to read books of no interest.

I did not mean writing in all capital letters, just the first letter of a name. By using a capital the name stands out and is more likely to attract the attention of a possible relative. All capitals is as bad as all lower case. Judi has expressed it right, it does look like one long sentence. Gill

You can use capitals on a mobile!!! I do it all the time - can't stand proper nouns without a capital letter. Anne

It's all down to poor teaching and bad manners, plus the wretched 'mobile' texting. Things aren't helped by TV companies who run credits using all lower case for the names of people involved in their 'productions'. Reg

It's these kiddy-winks. They are all so into text messages on their mobiles (where you can't capitalise) they forget how to write properly. One granddaughter, shortly to be a full blown junior school teacher, had to have remedial English when she started at university. Not surprising when you read her own school report as her teachers needed the same course. Not like that ... stumps his walking stick on the ground before stamping off muttering, CB

I assume that you mean people who use incorrect punctuation and don't capitalise names, or first letters in a sentence? If so, I totally agree with you. It makes the whole email look like one big run-on sentence. Judi

Hi Capital letters dont really bother me, but I do know that some assume that you are shouting when you are using them?? However if you are talking about pages on the internet then you can increase the font size on your page..if your using internet explorer then if you go to view and the top of your page then text size then choose larger or larger.

THEY DO HURT MY EYES. Marion

I wonder if other people have difficulty reading messages when everything is written in lower case letters? If names start with a capital letter, as I scan down the list I find it easier to pick out any that might interest me because they stand out against other words.