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It is my understanding that only Germany and Luxembourg still capitalize all nouns. Can someone explain to me why we did this seemingly randomly in the U.S. for 150 years, but never before and never after? One example of many from the Declaration of Independence: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
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Dec 11, 2022 19:24
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the Monks that made all this poo poo up got bored easily
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Dec 11, 2022 19:26
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fyad was more influential than most people realize
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Dec 11, 2022 19:26
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grellgraxer posted:It is my understanding that only Germany and Luxembourg still capitalize all nouns. Can someone explain to me why we did this seemingly randomly in the U.S. for 150 years, but never before and never after? One example of many from the Declaration of Independence: but "legislatures" is, and it's not capitalized and "times" and "peace" there's something more going on here..................
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Dec 11, 2022 19:30
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Cubone posted:"standing" is not a noun as used here Yeah, I took German, there are no inconsistencies. Your argument has no merit, OP. This reads more like a Trump tweet.
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Dec 11, 2022 19:33
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YoU wRiTe LiKe ThIs ToO iTs FuN lIKe On MySpAcE
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Dec 11, 2022 19:34
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It's code
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Dec 11, 2022 19:34
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gently caress You.
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Dec 11, 2022 19:39
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It's even worse in the Constitution. All this weird capitalization seemed to go away by the 19th century. "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators."
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Dec 11, 2022 19:46
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bell hooks 
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Dec 11, 2022 19:52
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grellgraxer posted:It is my understanding that only Germany and Luxembourg still capitalize all nouns. Can someone explain to me why we did this seemingly randomly in the U.S. for 150 years, but never before and never after? One example of many from the Declaration of Independence: we speak american here, calm down buddy
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Dec 11, 2022 19:53
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It's an easy tell that someone got a hosed up brain. Very used imo.
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Dec 11, 2022 19:57
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it's because when you Capitalize things it makes them seem Important and Distinctive
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Dec 11, 2022 20:01
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also it was probably fun to write big capital letters with those feathered quills they had back then so they were looking for opportunities to sneak them in
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Dec 11, 2022 20:01
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it's really fun to write that way to be honest
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Dec 11, 2022 20:01
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It's a very boomer way of typing, I thought we wanting to start attracting younger demographics
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Dec 11, 2022 20:04
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It's called "Capitalism" and it's not as popular as it used to be.
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Dec 11, 2022 20:05
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AARD VARKMAN posted:it's really fun to write that way to be honest I think you went overboard with your use of uppercase letters, AARD VARKMAN
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Dec 11, 2022 20:06
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Mozi posted:it's because when you Capitalize things it makes them seem Important and Distinctive The most likely explanation. And they likely didn't have many printing presses willing to do the work to buy and place the bold font back in the day. Just capitalize the word for emphasis so even the cheapest printing house can print it correctly.
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Dec 11, 2022 20:06
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when my mom forwards me political emails, they're written like that
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Dec 11, 2022 20:14
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It's a secret code. If you look at all the capital letters in the Declaration of Independence it reads "SUCK MY BALLS".
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Dec 11, 2022 20:40
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Schweinhund posted:It's a secret code. If you look at all the capital letters in the Declaration of Independence it reads "SUCK MY BALLS". Do you really think people sucked balls back in the 18th century sucked balls? Had the technique even been invented yet?
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Dec 11, 2022 20:45
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They would Capitalize words each Time they would take a Sip of lean while Writing, was Easier than Trying to hold Count
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Dec 11, 2022 20:49
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Smugworth posted:Do you really think people sucked balls back in the 18th century sucked balls? Had the technique even been invented yet?
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Dec 11, 2022 20:50
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Foxfire_ posted:Benjamin Franklin was a pioneer in many fields
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Dec 11, 2022 20:51
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No Furthermore, Gas Thread, Ban OP
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Dec 11, 2022 23:33
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I will sometimes capitalize nouns in emails for work if they are the reason I am emailing about, or if I want to emphasize their importance.
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Dec 11, 2022 23:57
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Mozi posted:it's because when you Capitalize things it makes them seem Important and Distinctive grellgraxer posted:"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures." 
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Dec 12, 2022 03:55
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I still do this with random poo poo and I have no clue where the gently caress I picked it up.
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Dec 14, 2022 10:06
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I like it as it’s a subtle way of showing how Comedically Petty I Can Be (which is a lot)
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Dec 14, 2022 10:09
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They were just capitalizing words that they wanted people to pay more attention to. It's like a classier version of using all caps.
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Dec 14, 2022 10:25
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Standing Armies was a name, OP. The colonists hated that guy. Consent capitalized is just a mistake, though.
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Dec 14, 2022 12:13
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it was hard to do bold letters with ink and quill so they just capitalized important words.
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Dec 14, 2022 17:30
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words weird reality
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Dec 14, 2022 18:29
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grellgraxer posted:It's even worse in the Constitution. All this weird capitalization seemed to go away by the 19th century. That's just regular modern German capitalization. Dude was German. Dunno what's going on in your first though. Maybe botulism? Supposedly there aresome studies that show that capitalization in German improves reading & text comprehension speed. It's like meta information that helps your brain parse the text and avoid ambiguity. Dunno if it's true cause how would you even get a control group for something like that
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