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Old 02-17-2008, 12:20 AM
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I realized one way in which humanism has truly made inroads into the English language. The only pronoun which must always be capitalized is "I"! The only other time we capitalize pronouns is when we reference God!
Heh, except the capitalization of "I" first started in the middle of the 13th century (long before humanism) merely to make it obvious in manuscripts that it was a word, not a simple letter. It dervied from "ich", and when the consonant sound was dropped, they needed to do something to distinguish it.
DUDE?! How would you know this??
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