Why uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?
Why uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?
Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation?
What Is The Origin Of That?
Here in Canada at least, I was taught in elementary school to capitalize all important words (i.e. other than and, or, at, in, etc.) in a title. Is it taught differently in other places?
It's taught that way in the US as well.
In the uk they just teach us about proper nouns
It's called Title Case. There are different rules depending on which style manual you're using. Some people just capitalise everything. Some people don't use it at all.
and some people like to SHOUT, while others like to ScReAm
In all fairness, alternating caps is read in an extremely different way. It mimics an undulating high-low pitch that is frequently used for mockery in English. Can also be represented with a tilde, usually in a friendlier manner.
It something that always has been. Ben Franklin's Poor Richard An Almanack from 1739 uses title case. It was used in illuminated manuscripts written by monks
You're asking something that probably comes from a wide array of reasons that dates back literal centuries, even millennia.
I hate it - whoever invented title case needs their head checked. It makes it far more difficult to read.
For short titles it's fine which is probably the use to be fair, but when people on reddit/lemmy write a short essay as a 'title' man that is annoying.
tIME tO uSE aNTI tITLE cASE
IPreferCamelCase
i_prefer_snake_case
I was going to, but "I" is normally capitalized anywhere in a sentence.
"Why has uppercasing every single word in topics become so popular?"
In print, you can use all-caps to produce a large, attention-grabbimg headline and reduce the leading (line space) without worrying about font ascenders or descenders interfering.
Online, it's just shouting.
I have read that it was influenced by German capitalization rules; all nouns are capitalized in German. But I never checked if that's true.
It is true. All nouns and of course the first word after beginning a new sentence are capitalised.
Source: I am german.
ConJunCtion JuncTion What'S YUur FuncTion
Don't you mean "Why Uppercasing Every Single Word In Topics Became So Popular?"
Short, common words like "in" aren't capitalised
See? That's what you get when you insist to write everything in lower case with weird exceptions (I is capitalized, you isn't, narcissists...) People make up even weirder exceptions. That's on you, sloppily simplistic english grammar!
I tend to do this without even thinking about it. I think it looks nice though.
Costs me lots of lost time editing the body of my email because I instinctively do this capitalization thingy everywhere. Tis a plague.