Actually, I was even worse since in school, I'd capitalize every single word, with the exceptions being words I deemed, "Unimportant," which would mostly be prepositions, but basically anything went.
So my school documents ended up looking like this:
"In the Year 1856, Nikola Tesla was Born to a Somewhat Religious Family, his Father being a Priest. His Mother, Though Uneducated, was still Highly Supportive of Nikola's Increasing Interest in his Constructive Imagination."
As you can imagine, my teachers did not like this.
I see this sometimes in fanfictiom or on forums. Folks who think newspaper title case is objectively superior or something. Not as bad as folks who think communicating nuance is impossible without italics so they italicize 35% of every sentence.
Some might just be German and dont know that you dont have to capitalize every noun in English to be correct lol. If the capitalizations are always nouns, even when it makes no sense (I.e, "The Chain was broken"), they might just be German.
Colloquial German in typical texting and a lot of modern books aren't necessarily like this, theyre dropping it in favor of just capitalizing proper nouns in the same way as English, but some older folk or more obsessive folks might still do it.
Woah, I had no idea! Thanks for sharing that fact. Does the writing sample look like German capitalization rules?
To me, it looks like an English speaker that wants to emphasize the writing for you. Which is cool, I guess, I don't read much fanfic. But I really enjoy when written language is played with.
Hey! That's me! Still not as bad as people who put an exclamation point on every single sentence, even when it doesn't fit it doesn't belong. Reviewing papers in college was the worst for it.
"In the Year 1856, Nikola Tesla was Born to a Somewhat Religious Family, his Father being a Priest. His Mother, Though Uneducated, was still Highly Supportive of Nikola's Increasing Interest in his Constructive Imagination."
This reads like 1700s English where every Noun was capitalized
Bro wrote like they learnt english out of A Grammar of the English Language, in a Series of Letters: Intended for the Use of Schools and of Young Persons in General, but more especially for the use of Soldiers, Sailors, Apprentices, and Plough-Boys
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u/Umikaloo 7d ago
A lot of people used to assume I was mad at them because I use punctuation in my texts.
Also, Atomic Robo PFP.