abfarid

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah, ok. I suppose that helps a bit. This kind of ambiguity exists in pretty much all languages, but good to know there's some justification for that rule.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

See my other comment in the thread, it applies to pretty much all languages that capitalize letters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's just so weird, I know many languages, some don't use capitalization at all, sure, but all that do use it do it for names and start of sentences. Sometimes whether a word is a name or a noun is different from language to language (for example language names, some capitalize them, some don't), but is a separate issue.
And languages make grammatical changes even to this day, it's never too late to change something that has no benefit or hinders the usage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I don't think the US would either. Their justification for tariffs on Chinese cars was that they were uncompetitively cheap due to subsidies. Doubt EU is gonna subsidize cars, at least as heavily as China.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

What do you mean? Why would Europe impose tariffs on their own cars?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Oh. So what's the point of capitalizing things if it doesn't help to differentiate a name from a regular noun?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (12 children)

But why is "children" capitalized?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

Am I the only one who doesn't see a less buff John Cena in that photo?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Or worse... expelled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

– No, don't call my mother, she'll be so mad! She told me that if I die I shouldn’t come back home for dinner...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Appreciate the Cutting Crew reference. But I can and I will.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Wtf are jere-...

Yeah, ok, thanks.

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