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Posted by Tony Marston on 08/04/06 14:01
"Miguel Cruz" <spam@admin.u.nu> wrote in message
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> "Tony Marston" <tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Not in the English language. 'box', 'Box' and 'BOX' all mean the same
>> thing. If there are several different boxes then different identifiers
>> are
>> used, such as "the big box", "the small box", etc. Nobody uses different
>> combinations of case to identify different instances of "box".
>
> First, until a couple hundred years ago it was common to capitalize
> nouns in English as the Germans still do. The capital letter encoded a
> grammatical hint. I guess they could have put dollar signs in front of
> them but that's water under the bridge. You may still be able to
> convince the Germans to do that.
>
> In colloquial English today capital letters can encode all sorts of
> meaning. All-caps is used for emphasis.
Exactly. Different case can cange the emphasis, but not the meaning. "box",
"Box" and "BOX" still has the same meaning whichever case is used.
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Tony Marston
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