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I belive we should swich the name of the article from Capital letters to Majuscule. -- Dom th e dude 0 0 1 21:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
However, I think we should change the name from Capital letters to Capital letter, as in general, when naming articles, the singular form of a noun is preferred. Thanks very much :) Drum guy ( talk) 18:16, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Some languages use only majuscules.
Um, the business about Gutenberg and the upper and lower cases seems suspect. Is there something to back this up? It sounds like a faux etymology.
We're missing history here. When did Latin split upper and lower case? Wasn't the case with Greek similar, with inscriptions being in all capitals? — Hippietrail 02:47, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
I find the following part of the article more opinion than fact: "spans of text in all uppercase are harder to read because of the absence of ascenders and descenders found in lowercase letters" My mom prefers caps because for her it is easier to read. Also you may want to add to the article that for some people caps is considered cyber "yelling" or "screaming" and others just cannot understand why these other people think this way and continue to type in caps because they believe the others who think it is yelling are wrong. Who is correct? Is it yelling or is it simply larger text? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.112.199.125 ( talk • contribs) .
Thanks, that's an interesting site. I still believe it is personal preference :P 71.112.199.125
In typography it's taught that capital letters are less legible due to the fact that visually, an unrecognisable box is formed by them while lowercase letters form quickly recognised organic shapes.
In support of this notice that road signs (where instant readability is obviously critical) are written in lower case! (At least in the the UK).
212.100.3.56
14:53, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Point three should be removed, or explained better.
I think signs and labelling are examples where capitals are used for emphasis, for technical or logistical reasons (e.g. only capital-letter stencils available), or possibly in the misinformed expectation of better legibility. At a given type size or in a given amount of space, I doubt that capitals are ever more legible than professionally-set lowercase or mixed-case type.
In fact, with the right amount of letter-spacing and leading, in most fonts you can reduce the size of type and still improve the split-second legibility of road signs or the readability of running text by setting it in lowercase. — Michael Z. 2006-06-29 22:06 Z
I think it would be relevant to mention that all-caps typing on the internet is often considered the equivalent of yelling. 63.135.2.27 03:08, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I translated the section of the five types of majuscules from the German WP, but I don't know, where to merge it into the English article.
Tirkfl talk 13:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
I really like the silly additional "at home" proof that roman capitals are older than minuscules: due to the fact roman capitals came from older alphabets which could be written straight or mirrored none of the letters coicide if mirrored or flipped (W is a medieval ligature of VV), while the newer curvive and uncinal cannot (e.g. b, d, p, q). (Ok, runes can be flipped too, hence bind-runes like bluetooth logo, as they come from the Old italic alphabet). Can that be fitted anywhere?
The tone of this article is problematic. It reads more like the transcript of a lecture than an encyclopedic entry. For example:
"However, realize that before about 1700, literacy was very low..."
and
"This practice could date back to Johannes Gutenberg, but nobody really knows."
Almost nothing is cited either. —Preceding
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I belive we should swich the name of the article from Capital letters to Majuscule. -- Dom th e dude 0 0 1 21:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
However, I think we should change the name from Capital letters to Capital letter, as in general, when naming articles, the singular form of a noun is preferred. Thanks very much :) Drum guy ( talk) 18:16, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Some languages use only majuscules.
Um, the business about Gutenberg and the upper and lower cases seems suspect. Is there something to back this up? It sounds like a faux etymology.
We're missing history here. When did Latin split upper and lower case? Wasn't the case with Greek similar, with inscriptions being in all capitals? — Hippietrail 02:47, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
I find the following part of the article more opinion than fact: "spans of text in all uppercase are harder to read because of the absence of ascenders and descenders found in lowercase letters" My mom prefers caps because for her it is easier to read. Also you may want to add to the article that for some people caps is considered cyber "yelling" or "screaming" and others just cannot understand why these other people think this way and continue to type in caps because they believe the others who think it is yelling are wrong. Who is correct? Is it yelling or is it simply larger text? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.112.199.125 ( talk • contribs) .
Thanks, that's an interesting site. I still believe it is personal preference :P 71.112.199.125
In typography it's taught that capital letters are less legible due to the fact that visually, an unrecognisable box is formed by them while lowercase letters form quickly recognised organic shapes.
In support of this notice that road signs (where instant readability is obviously critical) are written in lower case! (At least in the the UK).
212.100.3.56
14:53, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Point three should be removed, or explained better.
I think signs and labelling are examples where capitals are used for emphasis, for technical or logistical reasons (e.g. only capital-letter stencils available), or possibly in the misinformed expectation of better legibility. At a given type size or in a given amount of space, I doubt that capitals are ever more legible than professionally-set lowercase or mixed-case type.
In fact, with the right amount of letter-spacing and leading, in most fonts you can reduce the size of type and still improve the split-second legibility of road signs or the readability of running text by setting it in lowercase. — Michael Z. 2006-06-29 22:06 Z
I think it would be relevant to mention that all-caps typing on the internet is often considered the equivalent of yelling. 63.135.2.27 03:08, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I translated the section of the five types of majuscules from the German WP, but I don't know, where to merge it into the English article.
Tirkfl talk 13:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
I really like the silly additional "at home" proof that roman capitals are older than minuscules: due to the fact roman capitals came from older alphabets which could be written straight or mirrored none of the letters coicide if mirrored or flipped (W is a medieval ligature of VV), while the newer curvive and uncinal cannot (e.g. b, d, p, q). (Ok, runes can be flipped too, hence bind-runes like bluetooth logo, as they come from the Old italic alphabet). Can that be fitted anywhere?
The tone of this article is problematic. It reads more like the transcript of a lecture than an encyclopedic entry. For example:
"However, realize that before about 1700, literacy was very low..."
and
"This practice could date back to Johannes Gutenberg, but nobody really knows."
Almost nothing is cited either. —Preceding
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69.129.190.2 (
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02:09, 6 October 2010 (UTC)