"I learned that some people in the USA use capitalization of names only if they want to express if/that the person is something negative???....You may explaine to me please. Here in Germany this does not apply and as I know in other European countries neither. We are living in a global world and use Internet therefor things should be done more professional helping all of us in Europe, the U.S.A and R.O.W. "
It is considered to be "yelling" when you capitalize many or all words in an email. It is not common usage to capitalize names in the US unless you want to have that name stand out for some reason. But as far as I know, it is not considered impolite either. Certainly on a list like this capitalizing names makes sense, because then they are easy to see.
Marie Coury
Mare, I can not speak for everyone here (Illinois, USA). However, I would only use all capital letters in a name if I was using that name in a title. For example if I was writing a paper and was going to write several paragraphs about a particular person, I would use all capital letters for the name and have the name by itself.
example:
GEORGE WASHINGTON
George Washington was born----------
Yes, here is is considered poor manners to totally capitalize a message. I don't know where that came from or how it got started. No, just writing a person's name in all capital letters does not mean something negative about that person. If we wanted to say something bad about the person, we could add a lot of symbols either before or behind their name; such as
*****George (at least I would).
Tonia
Mare, I can not speak for everyone here (Illinois, USA). However, I would
only use all capital letters in a name if I was using that name in a title.
For example if I was writing a paper and was going to write several
paragraphs about a particular person, I would use all capital letters for
the name and have the name by itself.