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USAGE: (No) Capitals in "I", "you" and one's e-mail signature
Subject:USAGE: (No) Capitals in "I", "you" and one's e-mail signature From:Dr Rita Puzmanova <rita -at- EXT -dot- EPE -dot- CZ> Date:Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:53:08 +0100
Dear all,
Could you please help me on the following:
1) Why does someone use "i" (meaning me) instead of "I" (in e-mail,
namely)?
2) Are there some languages which, instead of "I" put more emphasis onto
formal "You" through capitalizing the "Y" (Czech is an example)?
3) Why does someone manually sign the e-mail by his/her name without
(any) capitals?
Additionally: Why there are e-mail messages which do not use any
capitals what so ever (and require a "search" for every other sentence,
as dot gets easily overlooked)?
I can think of a variety of reasons for the above but I am really not
sure
and would appreciate the truth - any response and/or simply opinion (in
all cases pls respond directly to me, too).
