• DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org
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    “I absolutely love Marjorie Taylor Greene … However, right now, Republicans have to be fighting the Radical Left Democrats, and all the Damage they have done to our Country,” Trump said in the post on Truth Social as the House was voting this afternoon.

    Why do stupid motherfuckers Randomly capitalize certain Words when they write stuff?

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      Pretty sure it’s to add emphasis. Without it they’d also probably be too bored to finish reading/writing their sentences.

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      Common in 18th centurt English, and I think German too, all Nouns were capitalized because Nouns were important.

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        Yeah, but he doesn’t do that. Like, his use isn’t even restricted to nouns.

        There’s also a rare use in English where someone treats a non-proper noun as a proper noun to imply that they have entity-like status. I don’t know if there’s a term for that. Like, oh…

        “Jim made sure to leave the toilet seat down. He knew that for Anne, this was one of the Important Marriage Obligations that he had.”

        But he’s not doing that either, though that’s the closest thing I can think of.

        At one point, he stated on Twitter that he did it for emphasis.

        He also does all-caps words, as well as capitalized words. The former is a conventional way of showing emphasis.

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      I think it’s like a “branding” thing, think of “™” being next to each word he does that with. They are loaded concepts that he emphasizes

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      He’s trying to be relatable to his base, who are notoriously undereducated/uneducated.