Thread 24790479

Should yelling be conveyed with all-caps, italics, or exclamation points?

>>24790479 (OP)
Usually 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.

>>24790479 (OP)
All-caps is obnoxious, italics are better used elsewhere, one single exclamation point is enough

, he yelled.
, he shouted.
etc.
anything else is gay.

>>24790787
I 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.

>>24790816
You can't mean that. Exclamation points are great! They're like the happy :) version of question marks! Haha!

>>24790821
Ywnbaw

>>24790824
Thank God for that!

>>24790821
>>24790826
See, it's not even an exclamation mark any more. It notates an inflection, not an exclamation. They don't feel genuine.

>>24790479 (OP)
It should be conveyed by the words on the page.

>>24790479 (OP)
It 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 better
YES LIKE THIS TOTALLY IS THE WAY KEK

>>24790479 (OP)
Did J K Rowling seriously use caps lock? I think I just lost what little respect for her I once had.

>>24790479 (OP)
all 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 implicit
if 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.

>>24791052
All caps is obnoxious

>>24791093
>>24791134
These guys tear up when shouted at. That’s why they don’t understand.

>>24790831
Every exclamation is an inflection you dope!

>>24791221
Hell yeah I tear up when I'm yelled at. I tear shit the fuck up.

>>24791236
haHAA

>>24790804
>he let out a stentorian yowl

>>24790479 (OP)
Animated wave

>>24790479 (OP)
Italics are normally /emphasis/ not yelling. ALL CAPS CAN WORK DEPENDING ON THE WORK. Exclamation points always looked limp wristed to me!
>>24790804
Or you don’t include any of that and trust the narrative to make the tone obvious.

majuscule

>>24790804
>, he said calmly

>>24790479 (OP)
With verbs or adverbs.
If you use typography to convey meaning, it suggests an inadequate familiarity with the language.

>>24790479 (OP)
an 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.

>>24792713
language is inherently a spoken thing. by hinting at speech you invoke the immediacy of it.

>>24791228
Not every inflection is an exclamation, now up to and including exclamations.

>>24790479 (OP)
Almost like that's what the exclamation mark was made for, crazy huh!

qutotation marks

>>24790816
What if instead of Exclamation mark it was an Ejaculation mark.

>>24790804
>, anon firmly ejaculated

>>24794390
We’re laughing at you.

>>24790479 (OP)
I use italics for internal thoughts and certain proper nouns (usually foreign in nature). Is that wrong?