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Urban Cricket wrote: In the German language "you" (Sie) is capitalised
that's the "you" in respectful form, which... without the capitalization wouldn't be possible to differentiate it from "sie" (they).
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That's what I mean. Although I have seen in correspondence "du" also capitalized as "Du" as in.
"Wie geht's Dir"
BTW English doesn't even have a "respectful you"...
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Actually, maybe the question should be why the others aren't capitalized.
They're in place of proper name which are always capitalized. It actually is done (in religious literature) if one is referring to deity - at least one that the write believes in.
Using 'i' simply leads us to think you spend all our time texting and tweeting . . . nothing to worry about.
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So you can confuse people. I or l or 1? (in certain fonts, of course)
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I just realised that if i start using lowercase "L" or "1" then l (or 1) can save a lot of pressing the shift key!
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 Good luck with debugging that.
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Because when people refer to themselves with "i" on the Interwebs, they sound stupid.
But if you want to complain about capitalising words, have go at the Germans!
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I just had a thought. If we started using "i" instead of "I" then that is like a little body with a head on it. Then Zaphod Beeblebrox could use "ï".
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It came from a printers convention: when Caxton started off his presses, 'i' was tiny, and easy to miss, so it was capitalized (as the first letter of the first word of a sentence was by then) to make it easier to see.
And printers are a fusty mob: they don't like change, so when they get an idea, it's very hard to get them to let go ...
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Marked as the answer!
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Being curious, I had to google that.
Why Do We Capitalize I? - Everything After Z by Dictionary.com[^]
> At first, the new word, i, was left lowercase. However, it began to grow taller than other words. It grew for a silly reason: a single letter looks bad. Look at it: i. How sad. By the time Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late 1300s, I, the personal pronoun, was slightly taller than its lowercase equivalent. From that point on, it was typically capitalized.
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It used to be "i" but Apple trademarked lower case i so now we have to write I.
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This MUST be the true answer! It makes so much more sense than ancient printers with bad eyesight! 
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...but I stand corrected! 
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Seems like it...[^]
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...because then, you are a mile away and you have his shoes.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...because then, you are a mile away and you have his shoes.
Who cares about that?
The haircut, though...
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You sound surefooted.
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Don't just stand, you will clog[^] the way!
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"DenyAccess" = "Allow"
"DenyAccess" = "Deny"
When I read "DenyAccess=Allow", I tend to think of it as "Allow denying the access", which means to deny/block.
This naming convention is always confusing. I see it right from DB to Networking UIs.
That "Deny" key should not be part of the attribute name.
May be it can be some 'X'Access, based on the context.
modified 25-Jan-19 8:15am.
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Or better
DenyAccess = true;
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Are you sure you want to delete?
Yes / No
Do you want to keep the file?
Yes / Delete
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Or the message you get when you press the Cancel button in a forum post here:
Quote: www.Codeproject.com says
Are you sure you want to cancel this post?
OK Cancel
Now, does OK cancel the post and Cancel mean it's OK, or does Cancel cancel the post and OK say the post is OK?
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