A sudden thought came to me while i was clicking through the internet and sauntering in my studies.
I just thought about capital letters in the English language and how Chinese does not have capital letters.
Is there a paper about this difference and what that means to English and Chinese as a language and how people are influenced or not influenced by that?
2 comments:
"but our full stop is two million times bigger than the English's.
that's why we dont need capital letters - an indication purely to show that it's the beginning of a sentence.
Chinese as a language is much more pictorial. so we have punctuations that are much more obvious to the eye than the english language's, like how we underline titles and have quotation marks that are much bolder..."
------ BL
'Not sure who would be the best person to comment. Capital letters are
usually used to determine proper nouns in written English. Proper
nouns in written Chinese used to have brackets around them but you
generally don't see them today. So.. Chinese does have the equivalent
of capital letters, at least for proper nouns, and in the past.'
------ Joy
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