what would you think of a woman who addressed a club meeting of men by telling them how charming, how well gowned, how pretty, they were?
This is why I really like books that are set in oldey times with people who have views like this, and why it annoys me when people say but that’s not historically accurate
tbh, half the time ‘not historically accurate’ is code for ‘i wish things were still like my imaginary version of 19th century England only minus the cholera’
This just makes me absurdly happy, especially because it’s written by a man calling out other men for this shit.
“But they didn’t know better” you sure about that?
dude was so mad about this he was snarking in all caps
Using ALL CAPS, and even ALL CAPS BOLD, suggests not only how strongly he felt, but that his typesetter was familiar with these forms of print emphasis, so clearly getting maximum value from 26 letters and Upper Case isn’t new.
Neither are emoticons - the possible first-ever example appears in a poem by Richard Herrick, printed in 1648! It might just be a typo, or related to the quaint period spelling of some words, but the positioning is certainly appropriate.
These nest ones are more obviously deliberate, and appeared in the magazine “Puck” in 1881…
And the first recorded use of “OMG” was in 1917 by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jackie Fisher (the man behind the pre-WW1 Dreadnought battleship.)
It’s a shame Mr Barrett’s comment doesn’t included a }8-< or :-P to add more emphasis, but it’s pretty clear that hitting capslock is nothing new.