Max820@feddit.org to ich_iel@feddit.orgEnglish · 5 months agoich🧒ielfeddit.orgimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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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.
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.