Small "i" in writings ... suspicious? (46)
I noticed that also,scammers write like that most of the time!If the message sounds to nice to be true and has those i´s in it I also delete it.
i write like that 
markizamkd25: i write like that
Marki. But then again your mother tongue is not english is it? I`m more talking about people from the english countries .. UK, USA, etc.
And also, I do not wish to offend the regular forum writers who do this .... these are mails from strangers, and they could be writing from anywhere.
If an english speaking person were writing to another english speaker is it not more normal to use the appropriate acceptable writing style?
Im not offended Smoky its ok.....and nope English is not my mother language 
smoky: I get mail, often quite nicely worded ... but the strangest thing ... a lot of them write I with lower case. Is this a normal thing generally? I just delete these as coming from who-knows-where-types .....
Would any normal educated literate person write like this?
For example - "i am divorced and i live xxxxxx and i would realy like to get to know you blah blah blah ... i i i i `s"
Huh? (Wedy you are excused, everyone knows you dont know what a capital i is anyway)
Would any normal educated literate person write like this?
For example - "i am divorced and i live xxxxxx and i would realy like to get to know you blah blah blah ... i i i i `s"
Huh? (Wedy you are excused, everyone knows you dont know what a capital i is anyway)
If I were sending first time mail to someone, especially someone I did not really know and whom I was interested in, I would make the extra effort to make sure that it was grammatically correct, with correct spelling, all the Is dotted and Ts crossed. It is a first impression after all. But when texting or using msn with good friends I do not always bother to make this effort.
I am curious. Is the personal pronoun 'I' capitalized in all languages?
It is odd though about the lower case i thing.
immanuelle: If I were sending first time mail to someone, especially someone I did not really know and whom I was interested in, I would make the extra effort to make sure that it was grammatically correct, with correct spelling, all the Is dotted and Ts crossed. It is a first impression after all. But when texting or using msn with good friends I do not always bother to make this effort.
I am curious. Is the personal pronoun 'I' capitalized in all languages?
It is odd though about the lower case i thing.
I am curious. Is the personal pronoun 'I' capitalized in all languages?
It is odd though about the lower case i thing.
Thank you for your input Immanuelle. I only know that in German - "ich" is written just like that, no capital.... same in Afrikaans in South Africa - "ek". English I on its own is written capital, or "I`m" never never with a small "i
These mails will use a capital at the beginning of a sentence - (normal) - but the "i" is what is puzzling me.
I know that Americans write with a lot of abreviations, but looking at the Intl Forum most of them use capital I.
markizamkd25: i write like that
Aha!!!!!
Caught one!!!!
smoky: I get mail, often quite nicely worded ... but the strangest thing ... a lot of them write I with lower case. Is this a normal thing generally? I just delete these as coming from who-knows-where-types .....
Would any normal educated literate person write like this?
For example - "i am divorced and i live xxxxxx and i would realy like to get to know you blah blah blah ... i i i i `s"
Huh? (Wedy you are excused, everyone knows you dont know what a capital i is anyway)
// i bloody well do its the big city where them pratts who run the country live and i thoughtjust type the words in and i thought the big letters came up on there own and wots wrong wit wat o writWould any normal educated literate person write like this?
For example - "i am divorced and i live xxxxxx and i would realy like to get to know you blah blah blah ... i i i i `s"
Huh? (Wedy you are excused, everyone knows you dont know what a capital i is anyway)
hic hic hooraysmoky: Thank you for your input Immanuelle. I only know that in German - "ich" is written just like that, no capital.... same in Afrikaans in South Africa - "ek". English I on its own is written capital, or "I`m" never never with a small "i
These mails will use a capital at the beginning of a sentence - (normal) - but the "i" is what is puzzling me.
I know that Americans write with a lot of abreviations, but looking at the Intl Forum most of them use capital I.
These mails will use a capital at the beginning of a sentence - (normal) - but the "i" is what is puzzling me.
I know that Americans write with a lot of abreviations, but looking at the Intl Forum most of them use capital I.
Aussie are much worse in abbreviations, who care!!! its only a letter from i to I,
its the most common word in English to be used, so most just put it down as i....
I might think otherwise if all the email was poorly lay out, with no effort in it... but not just a letter, as explained...
PS. isn't it funny, I just did a spell check on abreviations, and its spelt with 2 B's, not 1...
wedward: // i bloody well do its the big city where them pratts who run the country live and i thoughtjust type the words in and i thought the big letters came up on there own and wots wrong wit wat o writ hic hic hooray
well, hic hic hooray to you to!so you thought you just type the words in and a sort of deciphering sorts it all out at the other end?.... so, actually in the end, wots you wote was not wong it jus came out funny sounding not your fault wassit thanks for yor reply wed.
maybesoon: Aussie are much worse in abbreviations, who care!!! its only a letter from i to I,
its the most common word in English to be used, so most just put it down as i....
I might think otherwise if all the email was poorly lay out, with no effort in it... but not just a letter, as explained...
PS. isn't it funny, I just did a spell check on abreviations, and its spelt with 2 B's, not 1...
its the most common word in English to be used, so most just put it down as i....
I might think otherwise if all the email was poorly lay out, with no effort in it... but not just a letter, as explained...
PS. isn't it funny, I just did a spell check on abreviations, and its spelt with 2 B's, not 1...
Oh dear, so what you`re saying is ... I gone and deleted all those most delightful looking guys emails thinking they all just after my money!!!!! (hyuk hyuk - thats "laughing" in swiss-german). Ah so, after all my excellent schooling and paying attention to grammar, i just forget all that and start thinking i should maybe pay attention to these wild declarations of devotion i get thru emails? Okay, gonna try that.
But, I`m still confused how a person can get thru University Degrees and still write with "I" in lower case? Even I write I in capitals, and I`m not THAT educated!
Two of us on an island with scores of women...we'd probably be toast by the first weekend mate....
I feel a movie script coming on....
I feel a movie script coming on....
maybesoon: well after that threat mate, "who does care" I'm the desert island with you... you can have that-------> of the island and I'll have <------ that half od the island.... and every month, we will swap the women around cause we dont want to get bored, you know...
smoky: Oh dear, so what you`re saying is ... I gone and deleted all those most delightful looking guys emails thinking they all just after my money!!!!! (hyuk hyuk - thats "laughing" in swiss-german).
Ah so, after all my excellent schooling and paying attention to grammar, i just forget all that and start thinking i should maybe pay attention to these wild declarations of devotion i get thru emails? Okay, gonna try that.
But, I`m still confused how a person can get thru University Degrees and still write with "I" in lower case? Even I write I in capitals, and I`m not THAT educated!
Ah so, after all my excellent schooling and paying attention to grammar, i just forget all that and start thinking i should maybe pay attention to these wild declarations of devotion i get thru emails? Okay, gonna try that.
But, I`m still confused how a person can get thru University Degrees and still write with "I" in lower case? Even I write I in capitals, and I`m not THAT educated!
hmmm didn't know they were after ya money!!! dint even know your bank account was mention here...Ill remember to get my grammar right next time, (only joking)
Lagoona22: Two of us on an island with scores of women...we'd probably be toast by the first weekend mate....
I feel a movie script coming on....
I feel a movie script coming on....
yea i feel we might their "toast" they might be "man eaters"..
we have to have set rules made up... one at a time, the stronger ones, we will have to use handcuffs on them...
yes i see a best seller here mate...
Listen mate....put 30 women on a desert island with two males....and what do you get??..a short life....it would be suicide...
...can you imagine trying to bring home the bacon for that many women???....
...the only pigs on the island would be you and I...
...can you imagine trying to bring home the bacon for that many women???....
...the only pigs on the island would be you and I...
maybesoon: yea i feel we might their "toast" they might be "man eaters"..
we have to have set rules made up... one at a time, the stronger ones, we will have to use handcuffs on them...
yes i see a best seller here mate...
we have to have set rules made up... one at a time, the stronger ones, we will have to use handcuffs on them...
yes i see a best seller here mate...
who me Who me?
Who me?Yes you...this is a prison island for wayward women....now would you mind..please go and fix me a coconut daiquiri...
markizamkd25: who me Who me?
just wait ull get it maybe one day
Lagoona22: Yes you...this is a prison island for wayward women....now would you mind..please go and fix me a coconut daiquiri...
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Would any normal educated literate person write like this?
For example - "i am divorced and i live xxxxxx and i would realy like to get to know you blah blah blah ... i i i i `s"
Huh?
(Wedy you are excused, everyone knows you dont know what a capital i is anyway)