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From: eric@whuxle.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Capitalized pronouns - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 29-Dec-83 22:18:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 29 22:18:01 1983
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whuxle!eric    Dec 29 22:17:00 1983

>>  /***** whuxle:net.nlang / iheds!esr /  6:18 pm  Dec 29, 1983*/
>>  Can anyone explain why the pronoun I is always capitalized and the other
>>  pronouns are not?  Does any other language have this distinction?
>>  My own theory is that either early English speakers were an egotistical
>>  lot, or else they were too lazy to dot their i's!
>>  
>>                      E. Rieback


I'll take the capitalized pronoun over German's capitalization of
EVERY noun any day of the week. When I began taking German four years
ago, there were some capital letters that I had to re-learn to print 
because I hadn't used them in some long.... what a bitch....


			from the vacationing from school keyboard of
			eric holtman... ihnp4!whuxle!eric
			.