Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Reason for and a critical question about 2012's 6.9% decline in nuclear production [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)madokie says
Why can't you be like a normal person and have a discussion without all the caps and bolding
You MISINTERPRET me; probably because you are not of the "typewriter" generation as I am.
In the days of typewriters, we used overstrikes to make bold type for emphasis. I imagine saying my words; and if I would have accented a word in my speech; then I would make it bold.
The computer generation for some inane reason interprets bold-face as shouting or getting upset.
To me - that is just a purely braindead interpretation.
We had a good method of indicating emphasis which is lacking in print but not in voice.
Now people interpret that perfectly good method of indicating emphasis as getting upset.
There's no good reason for doing that. We should use bold-face to indicate something.
Instead, the current interpretation is that bold mean someone is upset; and we don't want people upset.
So we just "threw away" a perfectly good tool.
I'm typing the way I learned years ago. Bold means emphasis; not being upset.
PamW