wRiTiNg wItH aLtErNaTiNg lOwErCaSe aNd cApItAlS lIkE tHiS.
.siht ekil sdrawkcab gnitirw
wreteng whiri thi littirs “i” and “e” ari entirchangid leki thes.
ALL CAPS WRITING LIKE YOU GET SOMETIMES IN LEGALESE.
Although these are all fairly easy to read, especially in small quantities, and they are all things one can probably learn to read even more easily, they are all harder work and less pleasant to read than text written in the usual way, with normal spelling and punctuation and capitalization. Especially when they come in larger quantities. And I strongly agree with Said Achmiz that the main effects of using a substantially nonstandard style are (1) to make your readers’ lives a little bit less pleasant and (2) to send the message “I don’t care about your time or effort or pain” to your readers.
Now, of course, you may want to do those things. You may just enjoy making people suffer (this one’s fairly unlikely). You may be making a sort of status move (see, I am so much more important than you that I can inflict this cost on you and you’ll put up with it). You may be trying to select for readers who really want to read what you write. You may be trying to select for readers who are already used to the style you’re using (maybe it’s a subculture thing). You may be trying to select for readers whose brain hardware happens to make reading your different style of text particularly easy (maybe they’re cleverer). Etc.
But you should think hard about whether the selection effect you’re actually getting is the one you want. I think it probably isn’t.
Here are some other things it would be really easy for most people to learn to read:
wri ting whe re ea ch wo rd i s spl it i n tw o li ke th is.
wriFUCKthing whFUCKere eacFUCKh worFUCKd iFUCKs interFUCKrupted bFUCKy profFUCKanity liFUCKke thiFUCKs.
wRiTiNg wItH aLtErNaTiNg lOwErCaSe aNd cApItAlS lIkE tHiS.
.siht ekil sdrawkcab gnitirw
wreteng whiri thi littirs “i” and “e” ari entirchangid leki thes.
ALL CAPS WRITING LIKE YOU GET SOMETIMES IN LEGALESE.
Although these are all fairly easy to read, especially in small quantities, and they are all things one can probably learn to read even more easily, they are all harder work and less pleasant to read than text written in the usual way, with normal spelling and punctuation and capitalization. Especially when they come in larger quantities. And I strongly agree with Said Achmiz that the main effects of using a substantially nonstandard style are (1) to make your readers’ lives a little bit less pleasant and (2) to send the message “I don’t care about your time or effort or pain” to your readers.
Now, of course, you may want to do those things. You may just enjoy making people suffer (this one’s fairly unlikely). You may be making a sort of status move (see, I am so much more important than you that I can inflict this cost on you and you’ll put up with it). You may be trying to select for readers who really want to read what you write. You may be trying to select for readers who are already used to the style you’re using (maybe it’s a subculture thing). You may be trying to select for readers whose brain hardware happens to make reading your different style of text particularly easy (maybe they’re cleverer). Etc.
But you should think hard about whether the selection effect you’re actually getting is the one you want. I think it probably isn’t.