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Tell your friend you are emulating 18th century English: > We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by th
by orthoxerox 4y ago
Tell your friend you are emulating 18th century English:
> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
- DoreenMichele 4y agoMore like 19th Century German. My German mother was taught to write by an Elderly Aunt before she started School, so her Handwriting looks like old German Script.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoNote the founders were already declining to capitalize Truths or Men :)
- CRConrad 3y agoThose are both towards the beginning of the sentence. Maybe just an "Oops, forgot to capitalize the nouns, better start!" moment? (But sure, the reason they forgot -- if that's what happened -- was most likely that the practice was falling out of common use, and therefore reserved only for fancier Shtuff like Constitutions.)