OT: what's with the 'i'?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 01/31/2013 04:55 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Way way OT:
>
> Just out of interest, why do some people use the non-existent word "i",
> not to mention other violations of capitalization rules when 1) their
> Shift key is clearly not broken, and 2) they aren't the poet e.e.
> cummings? I've seen a number of people do this (admittedly a tiny
> minority) and never understood it. Do they think it's cool? Are they
> expressing their inner rebel? Were they punished by their English
> teacher at school? Is hitting Shift too much effort?

At least in Germany, often your last sentence applies.

In German, nouns are written with a capital letter at the beginning. 
This means, sentences usually contain many capital letters. When asking 
people about it, the usual answer is "too much effort".

  It's worse on phones and tablets, were switching between upper and 
lower case can mean some "finger acrobatics".

Ralf