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Virginia Bēowulf · English Studies
2015-11-12 18:02:26
Хэй йоу хэй йоу! Зацените, какая была Мода на Правописание в английском в Конце XVII Века - все существительные писались с заглавной Буквы. (от автора: мне казалось, я уже травил эту телегу - но походу забыл!) Сейчас такое явление, как озаглавливание всех существительных, сохранилось вроде бы только в немецком - если кто из сведущих поправит, будет здорово. Чуть больше информации: Hart 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. The fashion was at its height in the later 17th century, and continued into the 18th. The manuscripts of Butler, Traherne, Swift, and Pope are full of initial capitals. However, the later 18th-century grammarians were not amused by this apparent lack of discipline in the written language. In their view, the proliferation of capitals was unnecessary, and causing the loss of a useful potential distinction. Their rules brought a dramatic reduction in the types of noun permitted to take a capital letter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hart_%28spelling_reformer


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