spongecase
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From sponge + case, referring to the “Mocking SpongeBob” meme, where this type of capitalization is used to convey mocking.
Noun[edit]
spongecase (uncountable)
- Synonym of alternating caps (“a form of capitalization where capital letters are randomly placed throughout the word(s), now used to convey mockery through text messages or in internet comment sections”).
- 2019 January 24, B. Miller, “Someone Created An App That Turns Your Words Into SpongeBob Meme Text 😂”, in Comic Sands[1], Oh Myyy LLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-20:
- At this time, the app is only available on iOS (maybe because the operating system almost uses sPoNGeCaSe in its name?) and it costs $0.99 to download.
- 2021, Al Sweigart, “Spongecase”, in The Big Book of Small Python Projects: 81 Easy Practice Programs, San Francisco, Calif.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 343:
- This short program uses the
upper()
andlower()
string methods to convert your message into “spongecase.”