Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation?
What Is The Origin Of That?
That’s just title capitalisation in English. 😅
Fucking capitalists.
OP is probably not English. Other languages have different rules.
For example, in Italian book titles only have the first word capitalized, e.g.: “I promessi sposi”
Same for Spanish, barring any proper nouns
Of course, yes! The original title of I promessi sposi was “Renzo e Lucia”, so capitalized proper nouns.
In French, it’s only the first word and the first noun or verb (Le grand Sommeil). But almost nobody respects this rule anymore.
Here in Canada at least, I was taught in elementary school to capitalize all important words (i.e. other than and, or, at, in, etc.) in a title. Is it taught differently in other places?
It’s taught that way in the US as well.
It’s called Title Case. There are different rules depending on which style manual you’re using. Some people just capitalise everything. Some people don’t use it at all.
and some people like to SHOUT, while others like to ScReAm
In all fairness, alternating caps is read in an extremely different way. It mimics an undulating high-low pitch that is frequently used for mockery in English. Can also be represented with a tilde, usually in a friendlier manner.
It something that always has been. Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard An Almanack from 1739 uses title case. It was used in illuminated manuscripts written by monks
You’re asking something that probably comes from a wide array of reasons that dates back literal centuries, even millennia.
I have read that it was influenced by German capitalization rules; all nouns are capitalized in German. But I never checked if that’s true.
You mean like how titling works? Like book titles and shit? Lmao I don’t see what else you could be asking. Did you think it was some modern trend or something instead of how literary works have been titled since forever?
“Why has uppercasing every single word in topics become so popular?”
In print, you can use all-caps to produce a large, attention-grabbimg headline and reduce the leading (line space) without worrying about font ascenders or descenders interfering.
Online, it’s just shouting.
ConJunCtion JuncTion What’S YUur FuncTion
I tend to do this without even thinking about it. I think it looks nice though.
Don’t you mean “Why Uppercasing Every Single Word In Topics Became So Popular?”
I hate it - whoever invented title case needs their head checked. It makes it far more difficult to read.
For short titles it’s fine which is probably the use to be fair, but when people on reddit/lemmy write a short essay as a ‘title’ man that is annoying.
tIME tO uSE aNTI tITLE cASE
