Re: Case for case-sensitivity (Was: Three simple questions)

[John English <je@bton.ac.uk>]

What a lot of bandwidth for three "simple" questions...

As my final contribution to this debate, here is a counterexample
of a sort from Mark Twain's essay, "The Awful German Language":

  "In German, all Nouns begin with a capital letter. Now that is
   a good idea; and a good idea, in this language, is necessarily
   conspicuous from its lonesomeness. I consider this capitalizing
   of nouns a good idea, because by reason of it you are almost
   always able to tell a noun the minute you see it. You fall into
   error occasionally, because you mistake the name of a person for
   the name of a thing, and waste a good deal of time trying to dig
   a meaning out of it. German names almost always do mean something,
   and this helps to deceive the student. I translated a passage one
   day, which said that "the infuriated tigress broke loose and utterly
   ate up the unfortunate fir-forest," (Tannenwald.) When I was girding
   up my loins to doubt this, I found out that Tannenwald, in this
   instance, was a man's name."

:-)

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