For I do not think that the reason why so many peoplefail to write good Essays or to make good Speechesis so much that they are barren of Ideas, or that theirGrammar is bad, or even that their Expression is verybad ;

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The third level of reading we will call Analytical Reading.

Curator’s Perspective

If you feel resistance to continuing with this project later, tryDialing Down the Scope.

allyou’re doing is drawing on a growing library of Intermediate Packetsstored in your Second Brain.

capitalization (in the case of names and pronouns) superficially empowers what might ultimately be thought of as just another adjective

So, i started researching where the capitalization of said pronoun came from and was quite stunned to find that it was always capitalized because it always appeared as the first word in a sentence, never stuck in the middle. And then, when it started appearing in the middle, it started getting capitalized out of convention and because people worried that it would get lost in script. Of course, "It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case" (journalist Sydney J. Harris).

I was always bothered by the fact that the first person singular pronoun is capitalized in english - i always thought it was quite self-righteous.

Douglas Adams noted, "Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to."

By capitalizing words that shouldn’t be, it sounds as if the writer is trying to inflate the importance of those words artificially.

Capitalization conveys a certain distinction, the elevated position of humans and their creations in the hierarchy of beings. Biologists have widely adopted the convention of not capital-izing the common names of plants and animals unless they include the name of a human being or an official place name. Thus, the first blossoms of the spring woods are written as bloodroot and the pink star of a California woodland is Kellogg’s tiger lily. This seemingly trivial grammatical rulemaking in fact expresses deeply held assump-tions about human exceptionalism, that we are somehow different and indeed better than the other species who surround us. Indigenous ways of understanding recognize the personhood of all beings as equally important, not in a hierarchy but a circle.

Myself as the Thief.

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Persons and Things

Immortal.