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Formal "you" and Informal "you" : which is which? [46]
I notice that your own spelling is British, rather than American. I find it humorous that you ask me to ask someone "elder" about capitals in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, as though even the oldest person I could find would have been alive then!
Genvieve,
I didn't realise that the thing is about XVIII C.
I thought that the change could be relatively 'new'
as I'm pretty sure I was taught that you should capitalise 'Yous'.
now I can perfectly understand why you found it humorous:)
maybe my teacher was not competent enough
which would not surprise me.
I notice that your own spelling is British, rather than American.
yes, my spelling is British all the way down. nice that you noticed that
(unfortunately, I tend to use British dialects words, too).
I believe this is a rare phenomenon nowadays within non-natives.
I was looking at a poem by nineteenth-century poet William Blake
as for the books, I wasn't speaking about poems as we all know
that there are separate rules for writing them.
I was talking about prose.
as for religion, I am an atheist and I can tell you a lot about religions
as this is my sort of 'hobby'. by standing aside I'm pretty objective, I believe.
I'm not going to start a discussion because I live in Poland
and I don't know what might or might not be interesting for you.
I am more that willing to participate, though.
if no discussion starts,
contact me via mail, if you wish, and feel free to ask any questions.
The British an American press print capitalized nouns in paper headlines, don't they?
they do but it is not a feature of the language but rather a style of writing headlines
and other press writing rules. same thing with grammar (or, in fact, a lack of grammar)
and many other features of the language which are different in such pieces of writing.
