Tuesday, June 9, 2009

i?

i kinda understand the conventions of punctuation and grammar. you're supposed to capitalize the beginning of a word after a period. that word is instantly transformed; it becomes the head of the sentence. what about all of the other words following the "newly-regalized" word? are they any less important than its predecessor/ancestor? after all, you can't really have a sentence without 'em. furthermore, is that word more important at the front of the sentence than when it is playing the supporting role? this goes to my next point/question. everyone knows that you're also supposed to capitalize the letter i. i don't like capitalizing the letter i. it started out as me being lazy when i didn't have MS WORD to auto-correct my grammatical errors. then i thought: "why is it capitalized anyway?" so one night, similar to this one, i decided to search for an answer. allegedly, this capitalized one-lettered word is a vestigial form of grammar in our language that came from german grammar. also [allegedly], all nouns are capitalized in german. "Ich" is the german equivalent to our "I," can someone that speaks german verify this? now i understand basic grammar, but why do some of these rules exist? what i'm trying to say is that i don't like capitalizing the victim-of-identity-crisis-
letter-one-letter-word-thing, named i, because by capitalizing i, does that mean that I think that I'm more important than you?


hmm.

Tea's Gone.

2 comments:

  1. this was a good discussion. i'm pleased to have been a part. looking forward to future stimulation resulting from your thought caffeine.

    lydiA!

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