File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2000/postcolonial.0010, message 185


Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:07:04 -0400
Subject: Re: 'I' am a PiG



>Question:  Is English the only language on earth where the personal pronoun
>'I' is ALWAYS  and categorically capitalized?  i have done some research,
>  and believe the answer to be 'yes'.

Or, perhaps prior: what proportion of written languages (most? few? hard to 
say?) distinguish capital from lower case letters?

ignorant,
Bram



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