• moosetwin
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      2 months ago

      I’ve seen it a lot on the internet, used for emphasis in a different way than italics.

      It feels closer to bold but I couldn’t find anything online about it

      (aside from a wikipedia page offhandedly calling it ‘capitalization for signification’)

      minor note

      the parenthesized text is meant to go with the previous blurb but it was hard for me to read (the ‘wall of text’ effect) so I separated it

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      It’s for emphasis, most likely. Italics would have been the more common option, but it still gets the point across this way.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        I hate it. Makes me think it was referencing like song titles or titles of some other media

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        I sincerely thought she was referencing song titles, so I’m gonna have to slightly disagree that it DOES get the point across 😄

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          My first thought was it’s some kind of code. But BMHGADHD doesn’t ring any bells nor any anagram solvers yield any result

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              A habit from playing online riddles, I guess, to run everything strange through ROT13 and anagram solver. Should’ve been obvious that it’d be fruitless, though, given that there’s only one vowel.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        It’s just jarring which is why it has emphasis. I feel like people don’t give a shit about grammar anymore. Commas are in random places, and no one knows what a proper noun is.