As a Russian reader and the son of two Russian parents who sometimes had problems with learning English later in life, I can agree with you there 100%. Of all

As a Russian reader and the son of two Russian parents who sometimes had problems with learning English later in life, I can agree with you there 100%. Of all the weird English rules, idiosyncrasies, etc. that would confuse my parents time and time again, words in all-capitals were never one of them. I'd chock this up to the Chinese alphabet. It's all to do with what your original language has and doesn't have. My parents still can't understand why you need the word "the" or where you're supposed to use it, since Russian doesn't have anything like it.