Subject: Hmm.
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Posted on: 2009-04-08 08:12:00 UTC

I wonder if capitalization is always grammar, though. Sometimes caps or no caps can differentiate between two different things rather than just indicating the function of one thing. For example, Earth is not the same thing as earth. I'd call that a matter of spelling, because the first character marks each word as distinct from the other. On the other hand, the word "on" at the beginning of this sentence carries the same meaning with a lowercase "o," so the capitalization serves the strictly grammatical purpose of marking the first word of the sentence.

It may be different in different languages, too. I know that all nouns are always capitalized in German, so in that case it's definitely linked to grammar.

It's an interesting question.

~Neshomeh

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