capitalization problem

[Claradai]

when I read a sentence which is capital ,I can not understand it soon. I need to imagine the sentence which become a small letter and I will understand it. what method can raise your ability about reading capital words?

 

[Tdol]

You're right- people shouldn't write in capitals as it's hard to read. Writing in capitals is called shouting.

 

[Claradai]

You're right- people shouldn't write in capitals as it's hard to read. Writing in capitals is called shouting.

so i should not focus on capitalization, right?

 

[emsr2d2]

so i should not focus on capitalization, right?

Even though writing on the net is not normally done in capitals, I believe it's important for you to recognise all the letters of the alphabet in both lower and upper case (small letters and capitals).

Many important signs etc are written in all capitals, and you should be able to read English in both small letters and capital letters with the same ease.

GOOD LUCK! :-D

 

[bertietheblue]

when I read a sentence which is capital ,I can not understand it soon. I need to imagine the sentence which become a small letter and I will understand it. what method can raise your ability about reading capital words?

Native speakers themselves find it much more difficult to read long passages when all the text is capitalised. Luckily, this is very rare since capitalised words are usually limited to titles - and that's why 'all capitals' is often referred to as 'title case'.

 

[emsr2d2]

Native speakers themselves find it much more difficult to read long passages when all the text is capitalised. Luckily, this is very rare since capitalised words are usually limited to titles - and that's why 'all capitals' is often referred to as 'title case'.

I partly agree with you on this. It's very annoying to have to read long passages all in capitals, but I don't think most native speakers would say they find it "difficult" to read/understand, just because it's all in upper case.

 

[Claradai]

all right, I got it. thank you for all guies.

 

[bertietheblue]

I partly agree with you on this. It's very annoying to have to read long passages all in capitals, but I don't think most native speakers would say they find it "difficult" to read/understand, just because it's all in upper case.

I didn't say 'difficult'; I said 'much more difficult' - it was a comparative comment - and I made no mention of understanding. I'll wager that it would take you upto twice as long to read 20 pages in all caps (if you can find a document that is 20 pages of caps) as it would if the text was in normal sentence case unless spacing was also changed, or else that you'd give up with a headache or in annoyance.

 

[emsr2d2]

I didn't say 'difficult'; I said 'much more difficult' - it was a comparative comment - and I made no mention of understanding. I'll wager that it would take you upto twice as long to read 20 pages in all caps (if you can find a document that is 20 pages of caps) as it would if the text was in normal sentence case unless spacing was also changed, or else that you'd give up with a headache or in annoyance.

I realise that you said "much more difficult" as a comparative, but by saying "much more difficult" that suggests that reading a document in the normal mixture of upper and lower case would have been difficult in the first place. I would have thought that most native speakers would find reading that hypothetical document pretty easy, therefore my "comparative" take on it might be that it would be "less easy" if it were all in capitals. The OP was the one who specified "understanding" being a problem so I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that you too were referring to both reading and understanding.