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minus-squareWrufieotnak@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoBecause in the German language all nouns are capitalized. Or was that a joke on children and capitalism?
minus-squareFarid@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoOh. So what’s the point of capitalizing things if it doesn’t help to differentiate a name from a regular noun?
minus-square0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoWho says capitalizing is for differentiating a name from a noun? maybe it’s for differentiating a noun from everything else and English is actually the one doing it wrong.
minus-squareFarid@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·5 months agoSee my other comment in the thread, it applies to pretty much all languages that capitalize letters.
Because in the German language all nouns are capitalized.
Or was that a joke on children and capitalism?
Oh. So what’s the point of capitalizing things if it doesn’t help to differentiate a name from a regular noun?
Who says capitalizing is for differentiating a name from a noun? maybe it’s for differentiating a noun from everything else and English is actually the one doing it wrong.
See my other comment in the thread, it applies to pretty much all languages that capitalize letters.