When people don't capitalise your name!

Hate Actually

Does it ever annoy you when some doesn't capitalise your name? I remember an email recently where I noticed that the person capitalised their own name but didn't bother to do so with mine! I wouldn't necessarily mind so much if they didn't bother capitlaising their own name too! Likewise I mightn't let it bother me if I see my name uncapitlaised in a group chat, but then when I later see that the same person has capitalised someone else's name, I will definitely notice that!

I always capitalise names because I'm a bit OCD anyway. But whatever sort of a person you are, you will always remember to capitalise the name of someone important.

Another time I was messaging a girl who I had to hots for on facebook, and one of her replies to me had the name of her city capitalised, but yet did not have my name capitalised. It was kind of her way of saying "are you really sure you want to ask me out?"

Allinall

Hate Actually wrote: »

Do you think people somtimes do this to annoy others? I always do it because I'm a bit OCD anyway. But whatever sort of a person you are, you will always remember to capitalise the name of someone important.

So I mightn't let it bother me if I see my name uncapitlaised in a group chat, but then when I later see that the same person has capitalised someone else's name, I will definitely notice that!

I remember once when I was messaging a girl who I had to hots for on facebook, one of her reply messages to me had the name of her city capitalised, but yet did not have my name capitalised. It was kind of her way of saying "are you really sure you want to ask me out?"

hate that, actually.

nthclare

If only your name was Jordan or Paris

Turquoise Hexagon Sun

Annoying as it is, I don't think people do it out of spite. It's just a kind of laziness. I've seen professionals not capitalise their first letter of their name in their emails. And even people trying to sell me services. I just can't take those people seriously. If you can't write your name correctly, what do we have to talk about?

EmmetSpiceland

Turquoise Hexagon Sun wrote: »

Annoying as it is, I don't think people do it out of spite. It's just a kind of laziness.

When I was a young man, new to the “work force”, I used to do it out of spite to one, nasty, individual in the office’s name.

Church on Tuesday

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

When I was a young man, new to the “work force”, I used to do it out of spite to one, nasty, individual in the office’s name.

Christ above...

It's worse when people don't spell your name correctly.

EmmetSpiceland

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Christ above...

It's worse when people don't spell your name correctly.

It was incredibly petty but I knew that it “bothered” them so I kept it up. Only someone that vicious could bring out such behaviour in others.

No, don't capitalise mine on here

Don't mind anywhere else really

Cee-Jay-Cee

Its even worse when you email someone and sign off with your name and they reply and spell your name completely different. I get it all the time, my name starts with a 'C' but I get idiots replying and spelling my name with a K and worse, adding letters into my name. My email address contains my name and I sign off with it and it appears in the organisation logo at the bottom yet apparently intelligent people spell it wrong in their replies. Bugs the hell out of me and I always correct them.

uch

Couldn't give a Barney's, been called uch since I was a chizzler, and still love when kids call me uch (lower case)

Better Than Christ

Hate Actually wrote: »

Another time I was messaging a girl who I had to hots for on facebook, and one of her replies to me had the name of her city capitalised, but yet did not have my name capitalised. It was kind of her way of saying "are you really sure you want to ask me out?"

Is that your way of saying you don't like Facebook?

Gynoid

It may be the ancestral animist in me but if I start off by not capitalising a person's name in a digital communication, out of pure laziness, I feel like I am doing some kind of voodoo on them, and always correct it. One would not do it on paper, after all.
On the other hand I often do not capitalise i online, which might be some kind of self effacing voodoo. Or is it reverse egotism? Cue existential angst. It's a minefield!

Mellor

It's one thing in professional emails to not used correct punctuation and capitalisation. But social media, particularly mobile phone apps, it's a different story.

Hate Actually wrote: »

Another time I was messaging a girl who I had to hots for on facebook, and one of her replies to me had the name of her city capitalised, but yet did not have my name capitalised. It was kind of her way of saying "are you really sure you want to ask me out?"

You are probably overthinking is. Her phone likely auto-capitalised her city.

If I type sydney on my phone. It capitalises it automatically.
If I type sidney, it probably won't. (I'm not sure, I don't know any Sidneys)

El_Duderino 09

Op, I think it’s pretty clear that they don’t take you seriously. I don’t mean that in a bad way, just to say they don’t take you seriously as a person, a professional, a human or your hopes, dreams and aspirations.

Or they just don’t implement the capitalisation convention as rigorously as you do. Is it really something to get worked up about?

silvervixen84

I'm happy if people spell my name correctly in emails. How difficult is it to check before pressing send?

stoneill

HI hATE aCTUALLY,

IT'S STILL BETTER THAN GETTING EMAILS IN ALL CAPS.

Bishop of hope

My wife's cousin and his wife send us a Xmas card every year, they never spell my name correctly, despite it being on our card to them every year.
Last Xmas I wrote their card and spelled their names as "tiny and shrill".
Their names ar Timmy and Cheryl, I bet we don't get a card from them next year.

893bet

Allinall wrote: »

hate that, actually.

Expected thanks = 40 plus

Actually thanks = 0

****ing it was a witty first reply people!

I will give you one.

Tough03

My mother for years has been spelling my name wrong all the time, in text messages and on any cards sent to my house. At this stage, she has me second guessing if I am actually spelling my name right.

Greyfox

Hate Actually wrote: »

Does it ever annoy you when some doesn't capitalise your name?

No, I'd rather worry about things that actually matter

banie01

Its quite a common strategy to annoy someone who is being irksome over email.

Miss capitalising their name, or "accidentally" misspelling their name in multiple variations over the course of a correspondence.

Not something I've engaged in myself, but know many who have and who are petty enough to love doing it.

Mellor

banie01 wrote: »

Its quite a common strategy to annoy someone who is being irksome over email.

Miss capitalising their name, or "accidentally" misspelling their name in multiple variations over the course of a correspondence.

Not something I've engaged in myself, but know many who have and who are petty enough to love doing it.

It might annoy somebody slightly. In the long run it only makes the person doing it look unprofessional and incompetent.

wakka12

I think it looks lazy and disrespectful, especially in a work environment and if you arent friends. Generally I would brush off such minor issues (and having said that, even this I would hardly give a ****) but yeh I agree with OP!!

KiKi III

I wish I had little enough to be worrying about that I could spend time ranting about something as small as that.