Should yelling be conveyed with all-caps, italics, or exclamation points?
>>24790479Usually italics is used for foreign words or phrases. Ironically some foreign languages sound like they angry and yelling. So, yes?
Or you have a bilingual character that only speaks in this other language to rant.
>>24790479All-caps is obnoxious, italics are better used elsewhere, one single exclamation point is enough
, he yelled. , he shouted. etc. anything else is gay.
>>24790787I don't know, I think exclamation points have been ruined by overstated enthusiasm and irony. They used to be uncommon and mean something. Now every woman, fag and other kind of retard casually puts them at the end of everything.
>>24790816You can't mean that. Exclamation points are great! They're like the happy :) version of question marks! Haha!
>>24790821Ywnbaw
>>24790824Thank God for that!
>>24790821>>24790826See, it's not even an exclamation mark any more. It notates an inflection, not an exclamation. They don't feel genuine.
>>24790479It should be conveyed by the words on the page.
>>24790479It should be implicit and up to the reader's own mind to naturally determine if the statement was yelled or not. I hate when an author tries to shove his particular intent with an verb when he could simply write better.
Caps emphasis a shout better. On /lit/ you will only receive pretentious answers. If you aren’t writing works that appeal to fake highbrow midwits you should use caps.
>>24791052>Caps emphasis a shout betterYES LIKE THIS TOTALLY IS THE WAY KEK
>>24790479Did J K Rowling seriously use caps lock? I think I just lost what little respect for her I once had.
>>24790479all of the above. and outlines, highlights, arrows, annotations, footnotes, etc. perhaps not all of these at once, unless the character is especially angry. but y'know, you got all that extra page, might as well use it. its just an extension of the text anyways.>b-but it should be subtle and implicitif you really want to convey what your character means to say and his energy, pull out all the stops. the author has to speak for his characters, and to keep mum out of convention is a disservice to the character.
>>24791052All caps is obnoxious
>>24791093>>24791134These guys tear up when shouted at. That’s why they don’t understand.
>>24790831Every exclamation is an inflection you dope!
>>24791221Hell yeah I tear up when I'm yelled at. I tear shit the fuck up.
>>24791236haHAA
>>24790804>he let out a stentorian yowl
>>24790479Animated wave
>>24790479Italics are normally /emphasis/ not yelling. ALL CAPS CAN WORK DEPENDING ON THE WORK. Exclamation points always looked limp wristed to me!>>24790804Or you don’t include any of that and trust the narrative to make the tone obvious.
majuscule
>>24790804>, he said calmly
>>24790479With verbs or adverbs. If you use typography to convey meaning, it suggests an inadequate familiarity with the language.
>>24790479an exclamation mark can come across as less a representation of speech and more something fully native to written language, with its own feeling, and often not a good one for dialogue. has to be used carefully.>>24792713language is inherently a spoken thing. by hinting at speech you invoke the immediacy of it.
>>24791228Not every inflection is an exclamation, now up to and including exclamations.
>>24790479Almost like that's what the exclamation mark was made for, crazy huh!
qutotation marks
>>24790816What if instead of Exclamation mark it was an Ejaculation mark.
>>24790804>, anon firmly ejaculated
>>24794390We’re laughing at you.
>>24790479I use italics for internal thoughts and certain proper nouns (usually foreign in nature). Is that wrong?
