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From: rab@cdcvax.UUCP (Roger Bielefeld)
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Subject: Re: Capitalized pronouns - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 31-Dec-83 10:57:56 EST
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During my study of German, I found that the capitalization of
nouns facilitated my learning of the language.  There was never
any question of whether a word was or was not a noun.  Is this a
carry-over from some earlier language?

Note that in German the pronouns in the polite form (Sie, Ihrer, Ihnen) are
capitalized.  This is also true of Spanish (Usted, Ustedes).  However,
these are all second-person pronouns.  The first-person pronouns (yo &
nosotros in Spanish, and ich & wir in German) are not capitalized.

But, back to the original question:  why is "I" capitalized in English?
I dunno.

				Roger Bielefeld
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			Roger Bielefeld
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