i
am an Indian, a proud Indian, i find myself enough good at English, but a fact
which shakes my heart more than my mind, that why this "i" the ninth
letter and a vowel in the language ‘English’ is used in different ways at different
sort of time? English is used in capitals letter when used individually. 'I
went there', 'I am an Indian', etc. The said mother language of all languages
of India, ‘Sanskrit’ says 'i' means 'अहम '
'aham' which gives birth to a feeling of superiority from others like we say
it 'ahankaar', which means Arrogance, Vainness, Self importance, Conceit, Megalomania,
Pride, Boast, Ego and many more words have the common meaning. It’s not
termed as a feature a human has to have in himself/herself. Then why it is
so that ‘i’ has to be in capital? It's a single letter and so are the others
but they don’t have that liberty which ‘i’ has and that makes me wonder more
why "I" is capitalized in the middle of a sentence and “a” “b” “c” is
not. It isn’t that i’m writing all these without referring anything, a long
time i have spent on the research and here is the result. The rule book says
'i' is a pronoun, so as "We", "us", "me" etc. are
also first person pronouns but they are not capitalized! and why? After reading
a lot of stuff online i got this answer which i would like to mention
here, The pronoun I began to be 'capitalized' around the middle of the
13th century. England is where the capital “I” first reared its dotless
head. But that isn’t which satisfies my question.
The
question is yet unsolved for me.
If
anyone has a better one please feel free to share your thoughts in the below
comments space.
