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> I just cant's wrap my head around the rule of writing every substantive with a capital letter though, which I interpret as an annoying need to always circumst
by terofle 7y ago
> I just cant's wrap my head around the rule of writing every substantive with a capital letter though, which I interpret as an annoying need to always circumstantiate a purported objectivity of the perceived reality.
I think this rule actually exists to make reading german texts easier.
IMO reading german without capitalized nouns is a lot harder, because you don’t recognize nouns on first sight.
- johannes1234321 7y agoIn English and other languages this works quite well without capitalizing each end every noun. (Only "proper" nouns) I don't know if it would hurt readability aside from habit of we'd capitalize only Eigennnamen as well.