Wednesday, July 4, 2007

i Declare...

I try to write posts in a well thought out fashion and follow the best literary practise that i know. I've even added my own personal sequitur to Orwell's 'Why I Write' or John Simon's 'Why Good English is Good for You' by using my own addition to English grammar. I propose that the use of "I"--capitalized-- other than at the beginning of a sentence should only be used for declarative purposes, such as "I am hungry", only when a condition is based on physical or primary conditions, such as food, shelter, education or reproduction. The word "i" should be used when stating something like a concept which can be more easily considered collective. What i'm talking about here is "Individualism" v. "individualism". Finding that one has to capitalize something means a kind of reverence for the word, which is written, is created in the subconscious. When considering a word worthy of capitalization, one has to accept it as an unchanging thing, which means either accepting the name one has been given or chosen, or the name which someone has given a thing or a place. Thoughts are merely continuations of what has come before in life and in the lives of others before. There is no need to declare one's Individualism at every point that their existence is referenced. In the use of "i", all that comes across is that "i exist", in the sense of consciousness, which is all that is needed in most cases. How the statement "I exist" differs from the statement "i exist" is in that "I" fails to infer that many other "i"'s exist as well. Many statements deserve the use of "I" because of their clear disconnection from an awareness of what is shared. "I don't know if you are cold", exhibits this disconnection perfectly. In general use, "i" should be used to imply that the first-person is not the main element of the message...

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