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Capitalization isn't part of grammar. Those examples are different strings of characters altogether.
by stronglikedan 2y ago
Capitalization isn't part of grammar. Those examples are different strings of characters altogether.
- otteromkram 2y agoI'll augment your statement by noting that punctuation is also not part of grammar.
- selenography 2y agoAnother classic counterexample: "This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand, and God." "This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God."
- selenography 2y agoThe classic, if crude, counterexample: "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse." (The uncapitalized version doesn't just have different semantics; it has a completely different parse-tree!)