File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2002/postcolonial.0204, message 81


Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:06:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Omar Guessous <o_guessous-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: question on capital 'i'


nor do Spanish or Italian
 .O.

--- LFontaine <LFontaine-AT-teaser.fr> wrote:
> 
> >Lise, you mean among western languages using that
> particular alphabet 
> 
> well in fact what i should have said was does anyone
> know of any language that textually or
> typographically marks the first person singular
> pronoun (in nominative position for those languages
> having nominative case, and since English only marks
> this particular case [I - me - mine].  I'll have to
> try to dig up the place where I read it, it might
> have been in David Crystal's encyclopedia of
> language.  Neither French nor German capitalize this
> pronoun, so I'm not sure it's a western thing. could
> it just be an English thing?  hmmm...
> 
> with thanks,
> Lise Fontaine
> 
> 
> 
> 
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