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A lot of people online like to type with alternating capital
letters lIkE tHiS, thinking that it makes them look cool
and/or 1337. Of course, typing like that is time-consuming
because you have to carefully press the Shift key for every
other letter. If you could filter your typing so that every
other
letter was automatically capitalized, you wouldn't have to
do
so, and maybe the ease of typing oBnOxIoUsLy would make
it
less appealing to trolls.
The Cryptic Message Discombobulator
http://www.tomkiddi...obulator/index.html
[pocmloc, Sep 03 2010]
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[MaRkEd-FoR-dElEtIoN] widely known to exist. A bit of googling perhaps. |
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If it were a filter helping me avoid ever having to observe this style of text, the bun would be forthcoming... |
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Where do people (try to) type like this? |
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A bad place you don't want to go. |
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It would be far more interesting to write with alternating
vowels and consonants. And probably impossible. |
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One could write a macro to do this, I think. One being not this one, though. |
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What I've always wanted is a macro to replace letters with basically indistinguishable, but differently coded, unicode glyphs, for example, replacing capital A with capital Greek alpha (Α), or lower case p with lower case Cyrillic r (р), or capital D with the Cherokee letter A (Ꭰ). |
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What jamobaker said. Alternating caps is a signal that the content of text is useless or uninteresting, so a filter to block it would be handy. |
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Well, obviously. But I was thinking, ynow, English. |
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Having braved the dark underbellies of the World Wide Web, I
assure you all that typing like this is a common practice in
more rustic corners of the internet. |
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Maybe one could just type the letter A differently or signify that it was different with some mark. I recall the explanation given to be by my music teacher as regards the difference between B sharp instead of C. |
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[LoriZ], those exist too. Can't find a link, but they're often used to try and hide the fact that work is plagiarised, so that searching for phrases just copied and pasted returns nothing in a search engine. |
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