On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> for rishab. > > -udhay > > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03wwln-guestsafire-t.html > > On Language > Me, Myself and I > By CAROLINE WINTER > Published: August 3, 2008 > > Why do we capitalize the word "I"? There's no grammatical reason for doing > so, and oddly enough, the majuscule "I" appears only in English. That brings me to wonder, why capital letters came to be, at all...or, to be more precise, why there are capital and "small" letters, some of which actually look different from each other....? Are there scripts other than the Roman, which have capital letters? Capital letters seem to be a way of distinguishing the word from the others in the sentence in some way...how do other scripts do this? "mera naam krishna hai, mein punjaab sey aaya hoon" seems perfect without the capitals.... Deepa.
