In case you haven’t noticed, i don’t capitalize the first-person pronoun when i write English (unless it’s the first word in a sentence or it’s in a capitalized title).

I’ve written this way for decades, and i’m not about to change now.

When i ask Google (in English), it says <Pronouns: Always capitalize the singular pronoun “I”.> But i don’t care.

I also ask Google what languages capitalize their first-person pronoun:

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English is the only language that requires capitalization of the first-person singular pronoun (“I”). In almost all other languages with writing systems, the equivalent word for “I” is written in lowercase unless it starts a sentence. [1, 2, 3]

While English highlights the speaker, some other languages use capitalization to show respect to the listener.

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Maybe it’s time to change that.

Google isn’t the boss of me; i choose to respect the listener. I have a degree in English, so i’m making a reasonably informed decision.

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[I added that bit on capitalization to the beginning of a loose collection of random sentences. It’s time to begin organizing these posts into a book.]

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In writing, you cannot exaggerate too much: always maximize figurative speech. (As if.)

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Words cannot always explain biological impulse.

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Random social media posts that i write when i’m high. Song names. Extracts of lyrics. [Writing doesn’t always have to make sense.]

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For me, the subject of Philosophy is basically mathematics … in English.

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“In the corner of my eye, i saw you in Rudy’s, you were very high, …” [Steely Dan, “Black Cow”]

Ambiguity is part of natural language.

Rudy’s what? Rudy’s stash? Rudy’s vagina? It’s open to interpretation. And who is Rudy?

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When you’re high, anything can be funny. Simply expressing anything, even just plain simple ordinary things … you say them, and they’re funny.

That’s the magic of being high.

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The real prophets of this age? Song lyricists; their words are heard by literally billions of people, and that’s what history will remember.

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A family goes to Greece. They just stay at the beach. They never travel. Instead, they get a book about traveling around Greece and read it together — they travel by proxy and get to stay at the beach all the while. [see Susanna Kaysen‘s Cambridge.]

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Storytellers are natural show offs.

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How can you know what you’re thinking, unless you say it out loud? (Or write it down.)

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[Ok, that’s enough for now.]