[tpop1]

Hey,

Some people who yell are just "HARD OF TYPING!"

Also, never mind The Navy, aren't we all monitoring your posts?

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by DougB

I fInD iT VErY rUdE whEn PeOplE uSe aLl CaPs, maKEs It VeRY dIFfIcUlT tO ReAd!

Oh, THAT MUST HAVE BEEN VERY HARD TO TYPE!

[DougB]

Originally Posted by skyguy79

¡uʍop ǝpısdn pǝdʎʇ ǝɹɐ ʇɐɥʇ sʇsod buıpɐǝɹ ʎɹʇ ¿ʇןnɔıɟɟıp sı sdɐɔ ןןɐ uı ǝpɐɯ sʇsod buıpɐǝɹ ʇɐɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ noʎ

Give it up! How did you do that?

[ajbrown]

Originally Posted by DougB

Give it up! How did you do that?

sn llǝʇ llıʍ ǝɥ ʇqnop I 'ʌʇoʇ oʇ sƃuıɥʇ looʞ ʎuɐɯ ʇɥƃnoɹq sɐɥ 'sǝılıɯs ɟo ƃuıʞ 'ʎnƃʎʞs

JUST upside down is even harder I think.

sʞʎƃnʎ' ʞıuƃ oɟ sɯılıǝs' ɥɐs qɹonƃɥʇ ɯɐuʎ ʞool ʇɥıuƃs ʇo ʇoʇʌ' I ponqʇ ɥǝ ʍıll ʇǝll ns

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by ajbrown

sn llǝʇ llıʍ ǝɥ ʇqnop I 'ʌʇoʇ oʇ sƃuıɥʇ looʞ ʎuɐɯ ʇɥƃnoɹq sɐɥ 'sǝılıɯs ɟo ƃuıʞ 'ʎnƃʎʞs

JUST upside down is even harder I think.

sʞʎƃnʎ' ʞıuƃ oɟ sɯılıǝs' ɥɐs qɹonƃɥʇ ɯɐuʎ ʞool ʇɥıuƃs ʇo ʇoʇʌ' I ponqʇ ɥǝ ʍıll ʇǝll ns

That clever guy is also king of internet sites How to Type Upside Down - Make your text upside down!

[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by DougB

Give it up! How did you do that?

If I told you my secret, then I'd have to you know what! But, you can find your own solution by Goggling for a web site with a converter!

[DougB]

Originally Posted by skyguy79

If I told you my secret, then I'd have to you know what! But, you can find your own solution by Goggling for a web site with a converter!

˙ʎɐpʎɹəʌə ʍəu ƃuıɥʇəɯos uɹɐəl ˙ʎʞs 'sʞuɐɥʇ

[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by DougB

˙ʎɐpʎɹəʌə ʍəu ƃuıɥʇəɯos uɹɐəl ˙ʎʞs 'sʞuɐɥʇ

Your welcome!

Sky "uʍop ǝpısdn ǝɥʇ" Guy

[Shimpy]

I hope the Navy doesn't call me up again to serve because last year I posted and by accident had my caps lock on.

[mjdollard]

Read an article on this earlier today, they pointed out that the memo on no longer using ALL CAPS was in all caps.

[Rebel Pirate]

Originally Posted by glgene

Something else about ALL CAPS vs. Not All Caps...

ALL-CAP reading slows down your reading of material by 18%. I learned that factoid when I was a young journalist. That's why you see newspaper headlines in Upper and Lower case (or, in some cases...all lower case) to make it easier and faster for readers to scan the headlines. Why punish people with ALL CAPS?

Call it the 18% rule.

Gene

I think the message/impact for TOTV'ers is...if you post long passages in ALL CAPS, there's a likelihood that many people just won't bother to read it. It's not only slower to read but more difficult to read; it's more difficult to "read" punctutation which makes it nearly impossible to read more than a word at a time. Speed readers just won't invest the time. Otherwise, to each his own!

[Rebel Pirate]

Originally Posted by rubicon

I read about this change recently and as I recall the article focused on the norms today. never once did I read as to why the US Navy instituted this practice in the first place. It seems to me if you are going to make changes then you at least have to look back to see why that practice, rule, etc was established in the first place.

As for the 18% rule slowing down reading well when I was in the Navy I noticed that slowing down the reading was a benefit given readers lack of comprehension...imagine with the criticism of our educational system for the last 20 years perhaps we now need a 36% rule??????

Why did the US Navy institute this practice in the first place? Excerpt from the link to the first article in the original post: "Back in the 1850s, the teletype machines that the military used were made up of three rows of keys -- none of them lowercase letters." So, it was an equipment limitation. The equipment limitation was overtaken by technology with the appearance of personal computers in the 1980's. But, seagoing traditions die hard. In this instance, it only took about 30 years to change the policy that was based on "tradition".

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by ajbrown

sn llǝʇ llıʍ ǝɥ ʇqnop I 'ʌʇoʇ oʇ sƃuıɥʇ looʞ ʎuɐɯ ʇɥƃnoɹq sɐɥ 'sǝılıɯs ɟo ƃuıʞ 'ʎnƃʎʞs

JUST upside down is even harder I think.

sʞʎƃnʎ' ʞıuƃ oɟ sɯılıǝs' ɥɐs qɹonƃɥʇ ɯɐuʎ ʞool ʇɥıuƃs ʇo ʇoʇʌ' I ponqʇ ɥǝ ʍıll ʇǝll ns

I am impressed how is that done???????

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by rubicon

I am impressed how is that done???????

It's a translator you can find by googling "type upside down," for instance: How to Type Upside Down - Make your text upside down!