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minus-square@Wrufieotnak@feddit.orglinkfedilink0•5 months agoBecause in the German language all nouns are capitalized. Or was that a joke on children and capitalism?
minus-squareFaridlinkfedilink0•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-square@0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish0•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-squareFaridlinkfedilink0•5 months agoSee my other comment in the thread, it applies to pretty much all languages that capitalize letters.
But why is “children” capitalized?
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.