It’s normal for people to get annoyed about things. One of my recent annoyances is when people capitalize things incorrectly when they should definitely know better. Here are a few examples:
- DvD (instead of DVD)
- FireFox (instead of Firefox)
- FaceBook (instead of Facebook)
- The name of our product (an acronym ending in s, which should be fully capitalized, but instead it looks like we have lots of that SYSTEMs)
There is no excuse for this. Please, people of the internet, stop it. The proper name and spelling is right in front of you.
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I hear you. I am not sure why people do this. Maybe they think it looks cool? At least they r not typing lk ths. (Ugh.)
Nathan showed me this blog the other day: http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/. Random quotation marks are, in my opinion, way worse than random capitalization.
I agree, random quotations are worse, but I believe that improper capitalization is a problem which has no voice. The bottom line is that people need to not be stupid.
Unnecessary Quotes is good, but don’t forget about Apostrophe Abuse. For some reason this annoys me more.