Calling all educators and ubergrammarkommandants..

Hey, RP. Are you referring to the titles?

In any title, it's proper to capitalize--either key words or all, usually depending on the length of a title.

If the title is long, you may not wish to capitalize every word, but use lower case for prepositions, etc. You would still capitalize the last word, so many usually just capitalize every word.

Hundreds of years ago, all nouns were capitalized in every sentence, title or not, but I don't recall ever reading of every word being so.

No, FV.

I'm referring to people who Capitalize The First Letter Of Each Word In A Sentence. <---Like this.

I've just done some research and apparently because younger folks nowadays are trained to use word processor proggys in school (and tend to type their blog entries and forum posts in them before posting for the spell-check).

The problem is that these progs have at least two modes-"title case" and "sentence case."

So, what happens when the user forgets to turn off (or is too lazy to switch from "title case" mode to "sentence case" mode, the entire entry becomes one long title.

Some people also seem to think that It Makes Their Posts Interesting And Edgy. Even worse is the practice of Not. Only..Capitalizing.Every. Word. But.Putting.Periods.And. Random. Spacing. In.Between. All. The. Words. For.The. Same. Stupid. Edgy.Reasons.

*I* think it makes them sound like they graduated fom the William Shatner School of Speech.

Now I get it.

"*I* think it makes them sound like they graduated fom the William Shatner School of Speech."

Now THAT is funny!!!!

I can't say it is something I have noticed but I do agree with you RP. It's a trip to try and read stuff like that. Very distracting.