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[Saint]:
Thanks JDGordon, really.

Sincerely,
[St.]

and,

--- Quote from: TAC109 on December 09, 2009, 03:22:37 PM ---I am a New Zealander as well (born and educated here) and we're not taught to capitalise like that (apart from 'I').
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I believe in saying we're, you're meaning you?

I'm NZ born/bred/educated and was always taught to do so.

As you may note I'm *NOT* capitalizing these words in this post just for the sake of "not giving fodder to those who will argue specifically for arguments sake" (but I must say that *to me* it feels/looks entirely unnatural).

I believe it falls into the category of "a forgotten era of English" perhaps, something that *WAS* grammatically correct but common error/public opinion/time gone by or whatever it was seems to have pushed it out of being "commonly accepted" when in fact for all intensive purposes it may well be formally correct to do so.

I suppose similar in a way to how the spelling of the same word can differ depending on the "version" of English (tire - tyre, center - centre, program - programme etc)

But who speaks or writes formally these days anyway, right?

Slang words creep into dictionaries and thesaurus' every day. Punctuation is on the way out, and spelling errors on their way in at a fantastic rate due to SMS "txt" and internet chatroom style abbreviation.

So I give in to the masses.

And yes, it's entirely off topic  ;D

Llorean:
Just a few things.

1) It's "intents and purposes" rather than "intensive purposes." For someone talking about grammatical correctness, you'd think you would know that one.

2) http://iselive.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/bookplay/SLNSW_F1/AYL/169/images/F1s/AYLF1s/AYLF1_0204s.jpg I cite myself a 400 year old source of lowercase "you." If it's something creeping into the language, you might want to consider that the English speaking world has been using lowercase pronouns (outside of "I") at least 400 years. So while you may have  been taught that way, it's pretty haughty to assume that the rest of the world is in error and whatever secondary education you experienced is the sole bastion of the correct use of a language that originated on the other side of the globe.

You might want to add your little region's unique variant of English rules to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization#Pronouns and perhaps update the New Zealand English wikipedia page to mention any other random grammatical changes your region has come up with. Just bear in mind they're going to expect actual citations rather than a general statement of "I'm right because I say I'm right."

There is no "forgotten era" of English. Not really. The written word has existed longer than the language (by over 2000 years). It should pose you little problem finding a reference for these rules if such exist.

saratoga:

--- Quote from: [St.] on December 09, 2009, 09:50:49 PM ---I believe it falls into the category of "a forgotten era of English" perhaps, something that *WAS* grammatically correct but common error/public opinion/time gone by or whatever it was seems to have pushed it out of being "commonly accepted" when in fact for all intensive purposes it may well be formally correct to do so.

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"intensive purposes"

[Saint]:
intents AND purposes... :-[

Must've missed the spacebar or something and that's what spellcheck came up with instead...I may of even picked it from the candidates myself if I wasn't wearing my glases or something.

I am fallable y'know... :o

 ::)

[St.]

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