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Why do some languages have Where did the idea of
majuscules and miniscules come
from? Germans get crazy with
capital letters while the
Chinese have no use for them.
I find them useful, but I
guess being fluent in English
makes me biased.
Yes, I KNOW that Chinese is
pictographic, but why, for
instance isn't there a bigger
or different character for
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For one thing, German is an alphabetic language, while Chinese consists of ideograms (and I'm not talking about Pinyin or other methods for rendering Chinese in Latinised text). German uses capitalisation for the first letter of nouns; this is obviously impossible in Chinese, seeing as each individual ideogram represents a word or an idea, rather than a letter. |
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because languages like chinese and japanese are based on pictures that were changed into words. i am fluent in english, but i think the whole "capitalization" of any words is utterly stupid. its like saying that the word "china" becomes more important when its capitalized. personally i think all words are equal and they should all be the same, but what do i know? im only 15 XD |
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??? Because they're different languages. Why would you expect different languages to be the same? |
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