There are times when I think that authors of all-caps
messages never learned their small letters.

Tale is told, possibly true, that when the Bell System
engineers were designing the first printing telegraphs
(Later, Teletype[tm]), they were technically restricted to
making the machines either all caps only or all small only.

They made some readability studies, concluding that
all-small-letter text was easier to read.

Story goes that when they told the president of AT&T about
their conclusion, he thought for a moment, and said, "But,
you won't be able to spell the name of the Deity correctly!"

So, for decades, the machines were all caps only.

Reminds me that the Christian Sci. Monitor's German versions
of the religious message of the day* typeset "Gott" with a
boldface G. I found that intriguing.
*I don't know whether they still have these; probably.

The monitor translations were a nice collection of source
material for informal study of comparative linguistics.

Btw, I *do* expect to run low on topics; I'll very likely be
originating fewer threads, soon!

Nicholas Bodley ||@|| Waltham, Mass.
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When I see "deity" misspelled as "diety", I think of the
little statues of Buddha; no offense meant.
(Until recently, being "large" was to be very fortunate.)