From: invalide@invalid.invalid   
      
   Ross Clark wrote:   
   > another day of unknown origin and insubstantial observance   
   > may be (sez crystal) a reaction against use of SHOUTY CASE in digital   
   > communication   
   > anyhow, the subject (of 'bicameral' scripts) is interesting;   
   > see especially the history   
   > old roman cursive (1st century ad) shows the beginnings of some lower   
   > case letter-forms   
   > but bicamerality did not become general in europe until 1300   
   > and took some time to more or less stabilize in english   
   > you probably noticed in the text quoted yesterday from the time of henry   
   > iv, all nouns capitalized (as still in german)   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Bicameral_script   
      
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