jbf@ccieng5.UUCP (just being friendly) (12/31/83)
I don't know how the capitalization of "I" began, but I can give an example of similar selective capitalization in another language. In German, when one writes a letter, one capitalizes all 2nd-person pronouns (in any declension). This is because it is in the "German national character" to assign some importance to our audience. I used to be a German national character, but have since been "naturalized", Jens Bernhard Fiederer