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Message de faf posté le 14-05-2005 à 11:27:44 (S | E | F | I)
Good morning ladies and gentlemen,
I deliberately speak English because I'm dud and I want to progress. In this way, you'll be able to correct me.
I write you this message because I don't understand why, since my first English lesson, we have to write "I" to designate the personal pronoun of the first person of the singular? Why we can't write "i", in small letter, like others pronous?
Thanks a lot to everyone. I hope you'll have understood what I wanted to say.
Good bye !
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Edité par bridg le 14-05-2005 11:49
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Message de faf posté le 14-05-2005 à 11:27:44 (S | E | F | I)
Good morning ladies and gentlemen,
I deliberately speak English because I'm dud and I want to progress. In this way, you'll be able to correct me.
I write you this message because I don't understand why, since my first English lesson, we have to write "I" to designate the personal pronoun of the first person of the singular? Why we can't write "i", in small letter, like others pronous?
Thanks a lot to everyone. I hope you'll have understood what I wanted to say.
Good bye !
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Edité par bridg le 14-05-2005 11:49
English only
Réponse: a question about personal pronoun de regine_lyon, postée le 14-05-2005 à 11:33:01 (S | E)
Hi !
I don't know why you must always write the pronoun "I" in uppercase, but you must also always write "English", with the first letter in uppercase !!!
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Edité par bridg le 14-05-2005 11:57
please, corrections are time-consuming, let us arrive
Réponse: a question about personal pronoun de aussie, postée le 14-05-2005 à 11:38:57 (S | E)
To avoid mixup with roman figures ie i, ii, iii etc, the alphabet I, when written alone is always capital.
Réponse: about personal pronoun de traviskidd, postée le 14-05-2005 à 22:09:03 (S | E)
I don't think it has anything to do with Roman numerals, which more often than not appear as capital letters: I, II, III, etc.
Probably (and I'm just guessing here), the word "I" is capitalized because, for a one-letter word, it's very important!
But really it's futile to ask "why" for these kinds of things; there are millions upon millions of phenomena (linguistic and otherwise) that we will never be able to explain. While it's good to be curious, sometimes we just have to accept the fact that there are things we will never know, and questions we will never have answers to.
Réponse: about personal pronoun de faf, postée le 15-05-2005 à 11:50:30 (S | E)
Yeah.
Thank you all the english people
I rather agree with you Traviskidd but this question was very spontaneous and, it's true, useless...
In all case, thank you so much. See ya later
Réponse: about personal pronoun de alexgowes, postée le 16-05-2005 à 03:31:57 (S | E)
It's an interesting question that has the following explanation: Lien Internet
Réponse: about personal pronoun de aussie, postée le 18-05-2005 à 09:55:35 (S | E)
Hello alexgowes,
for providing us with the reference. You were curious and have researched for it. You did not take it for granted. This reasoning "why" always leads towards progress.
I searched but I could not find clue of my answer. I read it long before.
Here I could not find but I have with me in my native country.
How ever thanks again. God bless you.
Aussie.
Réponse: about personal pronoun de serena, postée le 18-05-2005 à 13:20:09 (S | E)
Hi Aussie
"I" came to be written with a capital letter thereby making it a distinct word and avoiding misreading handwritten manuscripts.
(I took this from the given site.)
This is what Alex wanted to make us know. I think it's quite a plausible reason. Thank you Alex.
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