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Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

It was pointed out by Grimalkin in another thread that 'i' is the only personal pronoun which is capitalized. It seems to me a perfectly legitimate case to argue against this pronoun's prominence.

So here is the poll. Should it be capitalized or not?

State your case below.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

'I' should remained capitalized, on the argument that it replaces your name and it is capitalized. However, 'You' should also be capitalized.

I would like to suggest that jail time is in order for anyone who draws little circles, hearts or straight lines (like the Koreans do) over the 'i' in place of the perfectly respectable dot.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:33 pm Post subject:

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

It's language, not science. Who cares?

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

'I' should be capitalized because I am important to the fate of humanity. 'You' should be capitalized because I am a naturally polite person, at least when I'm speaking directly to You. 'He' and 'She' should NOT be capitalized because most of the time they are not there when we are talking about them, so no one cares how they feel. I could see capitalizing 'We' because I am one of them, but never 'they'.

Addendum to the jail time idea: The cell-mate must be an English major who specialized in grammar. Spending years locked up with a grammar teacher is the harshest punishment I can think of.

Woland · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: Seoul

Who cares about the capitalization? I think it should be italicized because italics begins with i. You should be underlined because it has the same sound as the letter u. New pronouns, bhe and bshe and bit should be boldfaced because they begin with b. We and they should be replaced by foreign equivalents.

JMO · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

What kind of fantasy land do you people live in? We got Ya-Ta Boy talking about capitalizing spoken words, Woland taking a completely hypnotic, hallicinatory view at pronouns (laudable!), and JMO venting his suicidal tendencies with a slash at each self-reference.

Bizarro land.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

Do you also make your '9's' as a backward squiggle?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

Atavistic · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:27 am Post subject:

I capitalize my I.

But I don't dot my i or j.

I slash 7 but not 0. ("Teacher, is that an F?") I also slash my Z and z.

I write 9 almost like a large lowercase g. I learned it from a Swede.

I now write my English H like a Korean ㅐ stroke order-wise.

I don't write + or & for "and." Instead I write a little 2 with a vertical slash through it.

The Germans capitalize all over the place don't they? Let's steal their pronouns.