Show our first person singular Is not engli english ai the only great language in which the pronoun ot of the first person singular is capitalized mow how monumentally imposing Is that upper caso case 1 I tf if a writer Is egotistic ti tic the capitals stretch across his page like a colonnade when he writes we he descends to the lower case but tills this orthographic colip solipsism iam mark you Is shared by americans canadians australians new zea landers all who use the english tongue it is therefore not to be set down to insularity but to individualism a stark ineradicable valuable quality of these various folks whose thoughts and feelings have bien been nourished by the same language henry van dyke in scribners maga tine line |