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by loeg 1247 days ago
Really curious as to how you choose which words to capitalize and why.
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I'm guilty of this so I'm interested in his answer. In my mind it wouldn't read correctly without it.

Say something. SAY something. say SOMETHING.

... this doesn't read well.

"and now TESLA just went back to the original prices". sounds like there are multiple people that went back to original prices but they are trying to point out that the discussion is about tesla. If this was spoken, the emphasis I would place would be on original, "and now tesla just went back to the ORIGINAL prices"

Intonation. He writes by thinking aloud (or in his head) how he says it. Usually we type simply by following grammar. But the way you read a sentence can imply different meanings or subtle emphasis what matters or "between the lines thingy". You can see TESLA being capitalize seems to hint he is a bit emotional whenever TESLA topic being brought up. As poster commented below, he should be capitalizing ORIGINAL given his observations of past price volatility. But instead, TESLA is consistently capitalized. I could be wrong if he intended to use the stock ticker name TSLA (perhaps the E is typo).
Yeah, I am not a strong writer. I just write how i think. I have ADHD + dyslexia and I can't follow grammar. :-( Im just trying to get it out of my head as fast as possible. Thank you.
guessing they didn't know how to make things italics