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Capitalized letters look like I'M SHOUTING AT YOU.

How would you reproduce this effect in Japanese?

I don't think any of the obvious choices,

  * using カタカナ instead of 漢字 or ひらがな,
  * using punctuation, e.g. brackets 「」『』etc.
  * using bold face

quite make the mark.

Does that mean I CAN'T SHOUT AT YOU IN JAPANESE ??!!?!
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katakana orthography
How would one emulate capitalized letters in Japanese?
Capitalizing all letters to convey the meaning of shouting is rather used in
the internet than books but here's what I found in the Japanese translation of
the Harry Potter first book (Japanese title 「ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石」). I hope this can
be helpful anyway.

Look at the first row, the shouted part is rendered in bold and a larger font
size. This is used consistently throughout the book.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WJrzn.jpg)
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Exclamation marks are one way (as in English), and often a っ before an
exclamation mark can give the effect of increased volume. They can even be
repeated or put into katakana for more emphasis.

黙れ！ vs 黙れっ！ vs 黙れッッ！！

Japanese writing also seems to have less rigor in its literature-writing rules
than English, so you can probably get away with repeating letters (黙れェェェ！),
using multiple exclamation points, etc., without being frowned upon too much
by literati. At least that's true for light novels and games.

There are also emphasis dots as istrasci mentioned. I think these are probably
enough tools to create a powerful effect if desired.
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It's worth noting that until about 20 years ago, capital letters did not
always connote shouting in English either; in earlier decades, they rather
implied importance or formality (their straighter lines were easier to carve
into stone, and so they were once always used for monuments, hence the term
"capital"). It was quite common to see all-capital texts from government or
legal sources, and you can still find all-capital sections in legal agreements
to denote emphasis. The denotation of capital letters as a method for shouting
grew up along with the Internet, along with many other conventions for
restoring some of the flavor of spoken language to a pure-text medium.

There are plenty of other ways to show shouting in Japanese. Size, font
weight, and exclamation points handle the job very well, and of course you can
just add auxiliary text to say that a character was shouting. On the Internet,
you can add additional emotion by emoticons: (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ or (」゜ロ゜)」 can denote
anger or despair, for example. Manga adds a lot of additional conventions,
such as gigantic, page-filling letters, jagged type, angled snipes around the
letters, enormous mouths, etc.

Capital letters, however, are not one of the options, since there aren't any.
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