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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 8:33 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 3:57 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 5:47 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:29 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:41 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:49 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:10 pm
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Cacciato To be honest, i've never capitalized my 'i's. It's nothing to do with grammar in my case though, it's more representative of a state of mind and a declaration of a submissive stand point. {shrugs}
While I can understand that you wish to express your state of mind through your writing, Cacciato, and while I can also understand that you may wish to express your submissive tendencies by leaving your "I"s uncapitalized, the fact remains that this is the Grammar Guild. This is a Guild created for those who are interested in using correct grammar and those who are interested in improving their grammar.
So, while your refusal to capitalize "I"s may have some kind of symbolism for you, the fact remains that it is not grammatically correct and has no place here on the forums of the Grammar Guild. There are plenty of other Guilds and forums (especially the BDSM ones) that would be happy to have you type away in lower case "I"s, but, much like eating a ham sandwich in an Orthodox Synagogue, that's considered rude here and we'd appreciate it if you could try to save that particular form of expression for somewhere more appropriate.
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:14 pm
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Ezra Pound [ Pyrite ] Cacciato To be honest, i've never capitalized my 'i's. [x] Then why are you here and who let you in?
~Pyrite [x]Someone who realizes that such trivialities don't really matter. Whoever it was, I applaud thee! [x] Oh brother, it's a GRAMMAR guild Ezra. It's like a mac user going into a PC forum. Sure, it doesn't matter in the long run but does that make it any less stupid? I was under the impression people who type with broken and incomplete English weren't accepted.
~Pyrite [x]
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:28 pm
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[ Pyrite ] Ezra Pound [ Pyrite ] Cacciato To be honest, i've never capitalized my 'i's. [x] Then why are you here and who let you in?
~Pyrite [x]Someone who realizes that such trivialities don't really matter. Whoever it was, I applaud thee! [x] Oh brother, it's a GRAMMAR guild Ezra. It's like a mac user going into a PC forum. Sure, it doesn't matter in the long run but does that make it any less stupid? I was under the impression people who type with broken and incomplete English weren't accepted.
~Pyrite [x]
I've met quite a few people who have flawless grammar but for their refusal to capitalize; indeed, these are frequently some of the brightest people I talk to.
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:52 pm
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:02 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:09 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:10 pm
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I think it is interesting that we capitalize the first-person, singular pronoun "I" in the first place. Allow me to consider the idea behind it, and pardon me here as I have never looked into any linguistic history on this matter. Was it just a matter of linguistic development? If so, why this particular pronoun when the German 'ich' (I) remains uncapitalized, as does the the French 'je', and both these languages heavily influenced English (but really, which language hasn't?), and no pronoun is capitalized in French and only the formal 'Sie' (you, formal, sing. and pl.) is capitalized in German. It seems that other languages have some sort of logic for doing things the way they do, so I am wondering if it is the same here. It seems like it is pointing to the owner of the "I" as being most important. Or is this just me being too philosphical?
Having said that, and pardon the length, I will say that it does look weird uncapitalized, and it's kind of creepy in all those recent gadgets like iPods and such. However, it could very well stand for something else, like internet, but who knows.
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