War Declared on Caps Lock Key

pieterh writes "I've launched a campaign to rid the world of the caps lock key. Sure, there are more serious problems to solve but please, think of the children! How am I going to explain to my kids why some of the most valuable keyboard real estate is squatted by a large, useless key that above all you must not press! Our campaign mission is simple: to send a message to the computer industry to force it (by any means necessary) to retire the CAPS key. It's going to be a hard, long, and possibly very embarassing war on uppercase, but some things just need to be done. "

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[Siward]

Aparently the "War on Caps Lock" is spearheaded by someones who's entire computer world revolves around chatting with immature pre-teens online.

Or by someone who works at a company with a policy requiring all caps in correspondence. Or by someone with a background in technical writing who knows that capital letters make words, phrases, and sentences more difficult to read. Or by someone who knows a middle-aged adult who just doesn't know any better. Or by someone who knows how to spell "apparently" and use "who's" is a contraction and whose is possessive.

Just because engineers are smart does make them authorities on the English language -- in fact, it usually makes them the opposite.

I work for a very large company and we are required to not type in all caps because it is seen as unprofessional.