Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:16:14 -0800
From: Marlene Atleo <maratleo-AT-island.net>
Subject: RE: I gives a boring answer


PAHLEEEZ!
this list has been too boring lately..I miss the ironic the ludic....in 
times like these...we need the non essential(izing)s.

At 08:57 AM 04/05/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Thank you for your mundane but essential answer.  Without it, some on the
>list with overactive imaginations might actually try to reach fanciful
>conclusions about an egocentric language that inherently subordinates the
>other to its oppressive subjectivity, or some other kind of highfalutin'
>balderdash.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: LFontaine [mailto:LFontaine-AT-teaser.fr]
>Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:17 AM
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: I gives a boring answer
>
>
>my etymological dictionary says:
>
>I developed from earlier <i> in the stressed position.  <I> came to be
>written with a capital letter thereby making it a distnct word and avoiding
>misreading of handwritten manuscripts.  In the northern and midland dialects
>of England the capitalized form <I> appreared about 1250. In the south of
>England, where Old English <ic> early shifted in pronunciation to <ich>, the
>form <I> did not become established unitl the 1700s (The Barnhart Concise
>Dticionary of Etyplogogy: The origins of American English words)
>
>So I guess no other languages ended up doing this, and here I was prepared
>to think it was an English way to give importance to the speaker!
>
>lise
>
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