On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Guillermo J. Rozas <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does Spanish *have* capital letters? Are the glyphs that correspond >> to lowercase and uppercase letters differ from those used in English? > > It has capital letters, and the glyphs are largely the same. > > However, with the exception of proper names (and not nouns), they are > only used to start a sentence. In essence, capitals are punctuation, > nothing else.
Punctuation is not meaningless. "People who are bad drivers have high insurance premiums." This sentence expresses an implication: if you are a bad driver, then you have a high insurance premium. "People, who are bad drivers, have high insurance premiums." This more cynical sentence expresses a conjunction: without loss of generality, you are a bad driver and have a high insurance premium. (My explanations use the general sense of "you". I do not know whether you, the reader, are even a driver, much less a bad or insured one.) Perhaps your point still stands, but please use a different analogy than punctuation. It is not just decoration. -- Carl Eastlund P.S. I did it again, sent from the wrong email address, so you'll get two copies of this, Guillermo. I will go (a) complain to the Google Mail team and (b) subscribe my other email address so this doesn't happen again. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
