Editing All caps (section)

== Association with shouting or yelling {{anchor|Shouting|Yelling}}==
[[File:Yelling Village Name sign - geograph.org.uk - 3251101.jpg|thumb|Name sign (in capital letters) of the village of [[Yelling, Cambridgeshire|Yelling]] in Cambridgeshire, England]]
Messages completely in capital letters are often equated on [[social media]] to [[Screaming|shouting]] and other impolite or argumentative behaviors.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Willingham |first1=AJ |title=Why typing in all-caps looks like you're yelling (A brief history) |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/23/us/all-caps-typography-history-tweets-trnd/index.html |work=CNN |access-date=6 May 2020 |date=23 July 2018}}</ref> This became a mainstream interpretation with the advent of networked computers, from the 1980s onward. However, a similar interpretation was already evidenced by written sources that predated the computing era, in some cases by at least a century, and the textual display of shouting or emphasis was still not a settled matter by 1984. The following sources may be relevant to the history of all caps:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/41249/when-did-people-decide-that-all-caps-means-the-writer-is-shouting |title=When did people decide that all caps means the writer is shouting? |website=[[Stack Exchange]] |date=26 October 2017}}</ref>
:* The 17 April 1856 edition of the ''Yorkville Enquirer'' (South Carolina) uses the expression "This time he shouted it out in capital letters." 
:* The 1880 book ''The Standard speaker and elocutionist'' has a section titled "SHOUTING STYLE", which states that "This will be seldom needed throughout an entire piece, but wherever the words imply calling, or commanding, it will be in keeping with the words to employ it. As examples note the following selections marked in CAPITAL letters as the appropriate place for shouting emphasis." A large number of literature examples are then given where all caps has been used to represent shouting. 
:* The 6 September 1958 edition of ''Bookseller: The Organ of the Book Trade'' describes writing in lower-case "rather than shouting with all caps. The effect is pleasing to anybody in a contemplative mood."
:* A 2014 article on [[netiquette]] (online etiquette) in ''[[The New Republic|New Republic]]'', titled "How Capital Letters Became Internet Code for Yelling",<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/117390/netiquette-capitalization-how-caps-became-code-yelling|title=How Capital Letters Became Internet Code for Yelling|magazine=The New Republic|date=17 April 2014|access-date=6 March 2018|last1=Robb|first1=Alice}}</ref> states that: 
::* According to Professor Paul Luna (of the [[University of Reading]]'s department of typography and graphic communication), all caps has been used "to convey grandeur, pomposity, or aesthetic seriousness for thousands of years", and for many years to express anger or shouting in print. Examples are cited such as pianist [[Philippa Schuyler]]'s 1940s biography titled "Composition in Black and White", which used all-caps to "yell", and [[Robert Moses]], who in the 1970s used all caps to "convey rage" at a draft of a book.
::* Online [[newsgroup]]s and [[bulletin board]] posts from around 1984 show that a user still needed to explain that "if it's in caps i'm trying to YELL",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.jokes.d/eA4GCKCnlAY/VgVq5JuLllcJ|title=Google Groups|website=groups.google.com|access-date=6 March 2018}}</ref> or that "Capitalizing whole words gives the impression that you're shouting".<ref name="net.flame"/> Another summed up that there seemed to be a developing consensus that emphasis was given to words via all caps, or by surrounding them with asterisks.<ref name="net.flame">{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/net.flame/VbghoeOfwyI/E2mClWj2GV8J|title=Google Groups|website=groups.google.com|access-date=6 March 2018}}</ref>