Re: [tied] Vocative Capitalization.

--- In cybalist@..., markodegard@... wrote:

> Glen Gordon wrote:
> >
> > How do you explain the non-vocative pronoun "I"?
>
> Scribal, then later, printers' convention. Small letter "i" is
> smallest of all the letters and gets lost on a line. Capping it

helps

> makes it more visible. I suspect vocative particle "O" is capped

for a

> similar reason reason, perhaps on analogy to "I".
>
> This is all purely internal to English, and we are getting off

topic,

> but that's never stopped us, has it?

Danish 2nd pl. pronoun is "I" with a capital I (as opposed to "i":
in).

Torsten