I'm Confused

[Monstericious]

Okay, I've recently been confused over the never-ending argument over the I In I'm. I've lately been proposed with two sides, I in I'm is capital and I in I'm is not. What is your side?  

[Niccea Majeare]

It is capitalized because the word "I" is capitalized. By the way, why do we capitalize "I" anyway?  

[Radio Chaos]

I'm is correct. I'm is short for I am and you always capitalize an I when it is lonely.  

[HarlequinGoddess]

I is also a personal pronoun, so it should be capitalised.  

[The Shoe Pile]

What? Isn't it always capitalized?  

[Woodnut]

burning_light

What? Isn't it always capitalized?

Yes, always.  

[The Man who was Thursday]

"I" is always capitalized because I am the most important person, linguistically speaking.

We include people besides myself, so I get to knock down our status.

Curious, though: why don't I get to capitalize references to me? I suppose one might say that I would be the object of a verb, then, and thus demotable, status-wise?


All that or grammar is just a bunch of arbitrary rules that may or may not make any ******** sense.  

[Lady Fenrys]

It's "I'm". Always.

It is rather strange that the English language capitalizes "I". In France, "je"--the same thing as the English "I"--is never capitalized unless it begins a sentence.

"Je m'appelle Fenrys."

"Est-ce que je mange une pizza?"

 

[The Man who was Thursday]

Fenrys Kijin

It's "I'm". Always.

It is rather strange that the English language capitalizes "I". In France, "je"--the same thing as the English "I"--is never capitalized unless it begins a sentence.

"Je m'appelle Fenrys."

"Est-ce que je mange une pizza?"

Likewise with German "ich", Spanish "yo", Latin "ego", Greek "εγο", &c.