i want to learn

Question

i want to learn because im sick of speaking english

Answer 1

Not to mention, she should have said:

This is I.

Answer 2

I had heard this before: that lower-case i would fall out of the tray, back in the days when printers set type by hand. So they solved the problem by using their capital I . . .

Answer 3

I found this on answerbag.com for what it's worth.

"Ego has nothing to do with the capitalization of the pronoun I. Printing and handwriting have everything to do with it. In Middle English the first person was ich--with a lower-case i. When this was shortened to i, manuscript writers and printers found it often got lost or attached to a neighboring word. So the reason for the capital I is simply to avoid confusion and error. Of course, some writers refuse to be bound by this convention. Two of our favorites, the poet e.e. cummings and Don Marquis, author of archy and mehitabel, both favored the lower-case i" (Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins 303).

Oralia, there is no intent here to refute your thinking about this. I agreed with you until I looked this up. Who knows if this is correct.

Answer 4

That's a good question, my thought is because Anglo Saxons, or at least our language, is ego centric. Or, the opposite of the Romance langues which do not capitalize "I" and rather capitalize Usted (Vd.), and capitalize little of everything else. I.e., in Italian, we do not capitalize titles, dott. Rossi, sig.a Franco, etc. Again, not these titles importance.

Answer 5

I is a substitute for your name and therefore, is capitalized.

I've always found this argument interesting. Using the same logic, why aren't you, he, she, we, and they capitalized then'

Answer 6

How about you just want to learn another language to broaden your knowledge be it of another culture be it of their people? That sounds a lot better than being "sick of speaking English."

While you're at it, and I don't mean this in a nasty way, you might want to learn better English grammar. "I" is always capitalized, although the trend might suggest otherwise. I is a substitute for your name and therefore, is capitalized. This is not the case with any of the romance languages however. "Yo" in Spanish, is not capitalized (unless it is at the beginning of a sentence such as in this case). Also, I'm is contracted and therefore, you must place an apostrophe to replace the letter you are replacing, and of course, the "I" is capitalized.

Oralia

Answer 7

this is me