Comments on: Yang sends another virtual group hug to employees

Yahoo CEO sends out second e-mail in three days to comfort and encourage workers in face of Microsoft's unsolicited buyout offer.

[edmundh]

What, Yahoo! doesn't allow use of the Shift key?

Is this typical of tech cos culture, to send out company wide emails that will be seen by millions without the use of one capital letter? I realize that in casual online chats and texts, the use of capitals is seen as optional, but in this context, shouldn't we expect proper form? Or maybe I'm just a middle aged fuddy duddy.

[Lee in San Diego]

It seems to be a young geek thing

Is another middle-aged guy, coming up on being an old fart, I
am with you on this. From my observations the phenomenon
seems to be prevalent among the young geeks, particularly tech
types. If you can learn syntax for writing code you can learn
syntax for written communication.

If you are OSX user, Windows may also have something similar,
open Dictionary.

1. From the "Go" menu chose "Front/Back Matter."

2. Scroll down to "Guide to Capitalization and Punctuation."

[MNNice]

I agree

They say people are more likely to "hear" HOW you say something rather then WHAT you say. The same goes for writing. The lack of professionalism was all that I could draw from this memo. I am officially old.

[AstyReally]

Jerry wrote that without caps?

And I thought, why is CNet printing it in all-small!!! lol

[freeyourmind]

Punctuation is next....

the next avant-garde thing will be to remove all punctuation from a memo in this way you appear really cool and edgy which is often more important that being comprehensible

i am going to google that let the words be the message

[worthknowing]

we techs realized the msg gets communicated

techies have outdone the 'old school' by innovating. part of that process is the relentless pursuit of doing more with less. in written language we realize the message still gets communicated without capitals. further it seems the only punctuation needed is '?', ',', and '.'.