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Old 5th December 2007, 07:10 AM
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Often when Japanese is written in romaji, words that are written in katakana are written with all caps... and katakana can be used for emphasis, kind of like writing in italics, so I just imagine the caps are to emphasise the words...? That's always been my theory.
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