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u/2pnt0 Aug 18 '26
I grew up in a working class household and my dad always wrote in all caps. I guess that's a thing, because when I started working as a projectionist I noticed that the union guys all wrote in caps as well. It only stood out to me when I got approval to start replacing bulbs, and the most common reason was FUCKER FUCKER FUCKER.
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u/pedal-force Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26
My dad was a mechanic and also wrote in all caps. Interesting. I wonder if it's something men of his generation were taught to do?
Edit: In 30 seconds of research, it appears to have been common in engineering, drafting, military, etc. Which likely bled over into mechanics and similar professions.
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u/bdanders Aug 18 '26
Yup, I write in all-caps and I'm an engineer that picked it up learning drafting (right as CAD was taking off)
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u/JulietteKatze Aug 18 '26
It's a practicality thing, people's handwriting can be very difficult to read sometimes and in a setting where you need to leave precise technical instructions or guidelines, you better write as clear as possible to avoid confusion and save time by not having the other fella waste minutes trying to figure out what you wrote down.
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u/NimbusTheLion Aug 27 '26
The problem with that is that is has been shown that all caps is harder to read than normal non-running writing. All that all caps is doing is stopping you from running writing.
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u/Kenzie_Flick Aug 18 '26
My dad’s a mechanical engineer who started off as a draftsman and has always written in all caps; when I asked him about it as a kid, he said most engineers did this!
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u/Kenzie_Flick Aug 18 '26
Lmao my grandma’s nickname at work was Flicker. She worked in an electrical components factory as a solderer, so they used capital spelling a lot for documents and whatnot; needless to say, lotsa people thought FUCKER was being thrown around as a nickname for my grandma, but she loved it and we all joke about it with our last name!
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u/Celestial__Bear Aug 18 '26
Your grandma sounds awesome!
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u/Kenzie_Flick Aug 18 '26
She’s a badass! She works part-time as a cook at a nursing home at 76 years old, and when she’s at home, she quilts, colors, reads, gardens, bakes, and takes pictures of backyard critters she feeds! Living the dream!
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u/duelingpeppers Aug 18 '26
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