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Monstericious

PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:48 am


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?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:51 am


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

Niccea Majeare


Radio Chaos

PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:17 pm


I'm is correct. I'm is short for I am and you always capitalize an I when it is lonely.
PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:55 am


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

HarlequinGoddess


The Shoe Pile

PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:32 pm


What? Isn't it always capitalized?
PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:11 pm


burning_light
What? Isn't it always capitalized?

Yes, always.

Woodnut


The Man who was Thursday

PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:34 pm


"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.
PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:40 pm


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?"

Lady Fenrys


The Man who was Thursday

PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:44 pm


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.
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