Warren Togami wrote: > On 10/05/2009 02:30 PM, René Berber wrote: >> Warren Togami wrote: >> >>> I heard an interesting story from a friend who was working in Mexico for >>> the past few months. Apparently in some Latin American countries, >>> uppercase legitimate person-to-person e-mail is common because it is >>> seen as a sign of respect. This apparently is due to historical >>> telegraph messages being in uppercase. >> >> Not true. > > Could you provide some context? Where are you from? What kind of > industry or people are you exposed to?
I am Mexican, living in México City. What your "friend" stated is not true, I've never seen uppercase use in any normal situation, just lazy people sometimes go all uppercase, and the usual "yelling". Does it matter "what kind of people..."? Grated I haven't seen all the mail moving around the country, not even a statistically representative sample, but the important point is what I haven't seen: uppercase used as a sign of respect. Even assuming your "friend" statement as valid, is just one point, its not meaningful... [snip] -- René Berber
