Semi-OT: Strange behaviour of the letter "L"

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

NON-capitalized words. Not just the pair close together in my post, but also other posts - by AT and several others (Alneyan, I believe, was one of them.). I don't know if it's a forum problem, and I haven't really been looking either (I just noticed it happen all the time), perhaps the reason you're not seeing it is because my PC is throwing a minor tantrum. It's been known to happen, just not like this b4

[Alneyan]

If that's any help, I have been looking in my recent posts, and saw no such occurrence. I certainly hope I did no such thing: I am supposed to be a grammar nazi after all.

Do you have any example of a specific post where this phenomenon happens? My guess is that you are confusing L, l and I, and/or an odd font may make them pretty much the same: those three letters are almost identical on my computer.

[Will]

Well, personally, I just think you're making aLl of this up. I mean, it's not like there are some aLiens among aLl of us that are insidiously capitalizing only the second 'L' of every word we type.



But, more seriously, if it is happening in some older posts, then it could be an odd quirk in the software used to convert UBB into whatever the database is that Shrapnel is now using for the forums. When the switch happened, there was basically just a script that took the individual files in the UBB, parsed, and loaded them into the database. If the script was from some other source, I wouldn't be suprised if the writer purposely put that in there as a joke. It sounds like something I would do

[Aiken]

Well, personally, I just think you're making aLl of this up. I mean, it's not like there are some aLiens among aLl of us that are insidiously capitalizing only the second 'L' of every word we type.

I have to open your eyes, finally. Such group of aLiens do exist. And their names are:
aLarikf, ALneyan, ALpha Kodiak, ... etc etc. You can easily find all of them in the User List, applying the *L* pattern for names. They even don't try to cypher themselves! It means that the CLLAOI project (Capitalize L Letter All Over Internet) had started already. Naturaly they've started Capitalization from the oldest posts, and then they'll move to the newest ones.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Jesus, why are Geoschmo and Alneyan the only ones who take me seriously?!?

[geoschmo]

Well, we take you seriously, but that's not the same thing as saying I really think there's a problem here other than you just fumble fingering the keyboard.

My background in computer support teaches me how to offer you plausible sounding suggestions why it might not be your fault, while simultaneously telling you it probably really is your fault. That way you don't think I'm just discounting your concerns and suspcisions about the system, even if I am.

It's all part of generating customer satisfaction.

By the way, you've still not given us any actual links to any threads with this problem so we can see if we are seeing it as well. I can't exactly search through every post At or Alneayan has ever made looking for words with a second letter L.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

I've searched... can't find anything except my own post anymore. Forgot the thread in which I saw it. Here's my original post, when I discovered the error first:

How come you know EVERYTHING about a ship as soon as you enter combat? You shouldn't be able to see everything, least of all the weapons, of an enemy when you start combat. Then, when you expect the enemy to fire an APB, you'd be very surprised if they fire a Graviton Hellbore, and vice versa. Just because a ship is brimming with ugly-looking bLaster turrets doesn't mean it even HAS bLasters.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Also saw an occurence with a LOWERCASE second letter "L".

(Narrator's Note: He's beginning to doubt there ever was a problem...)

[geoschmo]

Heh, well I have to admit that looks a little odd. But the human mind is a wonderful tricky little machine. Sometimes things get crosswired in funny ways and stuff comes out wrong, and sometimes it comes out consistantly wrong. For example, like I said before how I almost always type "teh" instead of "the". Another one is how I can't ever seem to type the word "custom". It always comes out "customer". Usually I catch it and edit it, but not always. I just think it's interesting how sometimes even when I am concentrating and typing slow it's like something takes over my fingers and types that last "er" on the end. Something like that might have happened here for you with the word blaster.

Of course, it could be a forum bug.

[Sivran]

But what about V?!

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