M & D Group Read (cont)

[Jochen Stremmel]

A-and surely not "common".

2018-01-09 22:39 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> realm is not a place. not an 'important noun".
>
> Hart <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hart_%28spelling_reformer%29> recommended
> his readers to use a capital letter at the beginning of every sentence,
> proper name, and important common noun. By the 17th century, the practice
> had extended to titles (*Sir, Lady*), forms of address (*Father, Mistris*),
> and personified nouns (*Nature*). Emphasized words and phrases would also
> attract a capital. By the beginning of the 18th century, the influence of
> Continental books had caused this practice to be extended still further
> (e.g. to the names of the branches of knowledge), and it was not long
> before some writers began using a capital for any noun that they felt to be
> important. Books appeared in which all or most nouns were given an initial
> capital (as is done systematically in modern German) - perhaps for
> aesthetic reasons, or perhaps because printers were uncertain about which
> nouns to capitalize, and so capitalized them all.
>
> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 3:55 PM, Gene DA <genevievej.da at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Which Speculation am I all ears for! One of my questions thus far being a
>> curiosity about the capitalization; rhyme, reason, or madness? There seemed
>> to be a drop-off in capitalization frequency after the first couple of
>> chapters. At first, I assumed it was only a time period custom and left
>> speculation on patterns for later. I was pronouncing sentences as I read
>> with so much alternating emphasis that it was much too distracting.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 4:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> yes, the early LED chapter is VERY IMPORTANT
>>> in setting out major themes of M & D, as Smoke said.
>>>
>>> Notice it is the LED---this true historical charlatan of
>>> the time, this dog who is like humans, who
>>> "Somehow the Learned dog has led him [Mason] to presume
>>> there exist safe-conduct Procedures for the realm
>>> of Death." [Why is realm not capped?, I ask, having a Speculation to
>>> Hand]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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