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 Sep 30 2008, 07:35 PM
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 omnomnom  Group: Member Posts: 1,776 Joined: Jul 2005 Member No: 180,688  |
Capitalize pronouns? For example: when your antecedent is the proper noun God? This is most commonly used in religious texts.
Many Christians have had arguments with me about whether His or Him is correct, and by the rules of grammar, it's not. Even at the beginning of a sentence, because all pronouns need to have antecedents. Anyone have evidence against it? I've always wondered. |
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Oct 1 2008, 10:35 AM
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 Tick tock, Bill Group: Administrator Posts: 8,764 Joined: Dec 2005 Member No: 333,948 |
Out of curiosity, I googled "capitalizing god".
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=capitalizing+god I thought the results were interesting in that several of the top hits were faith based. Funny enough, the first hit was atheism.about.com/od/doesgodexist/a/capitalization.htm. This makes me think that the rule of capitalizing "God" (if there is such a true rule) is societal rule and not necessarily a grammar rule, per se. |
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coconutter Is it appropriate to.. Sep 30 2008, 07:35 PM
only-tuesdays I've always been taught that the word God and ... Sep 30 2008, 09:12 PM ForgiveTheSinner Well I always capitalize God when I write about th... Sep 30 2008, 09:39 PM karmakiller I think it's kinda odd. I mean, we capitalize ... Sep 30 2008, 10:19 PM technicolour Capitalizing God/Him/His was actually in my gramma... Sep 30 2008, 11:45 PM fameONE What if you're not religious at all? What woul... Oct 1 2008, 12:24 AM technicolour We capitalize Allah don't we? And Buddha? Bein... Oct 1 2008, 12:28 AM
fameONE QUOTE(technicolour @ Sep 30 2008, 11:28 P... Oct 1 2008, 12:31 AM technicolour And would this spin off topic entail whether it is... Oct 1 2008, 12:33 AM brooklyneast05 i don't go out of my way to capitalize it beca... Oct 1 2008, 09:57 AM ChesterRevolver QUOTE(brooklyneast05 @ Oct 1 2008, 10:57 ... Oct 1 2008, 10:16 AM Stuckie I probably read your post wrong, but here we go an... Oct 1 2008, 01:16 PM brooklyneast05 YAHWEH Oct 1 2008, 01:20 PM ninjaBeenly Is god really a noun of a person, place or thing? ... Oct 9 2008, 04:57 PM brooklyneast05 QUOTE(ninjaBeenly @ Oct 9 2008, 04:57 PM)... Oct 9 2008, 05:01 PM only-tuesdays QUOTEIs god really a noun of a person, place or th... Oct 9 2008, 05:20 PM NoSex god is a shit head Oct 9 2008, 06:25 PM kryogenix god is dead
and no one cares
if there is a hell
i... Oct 9 2008, 07:04 PM fameONE QUOTE(kryogenix @ Oct 9 2008, 06:04 PM) g... Oct 10 2008, 03:21 AM MolecularStudios I don't usually capitalize 'god' but m... Oct 10 2008, 05:07 PM fameONE QUOTE(MolecularStudios @ Oct 10 2008, 04... Oct 14 2008, 01:26 AM towntown2 If you say " a god", then it's not c... Oct 10 2008, 10:04 PM Hedonism QUOTE(towntown2 @ Oct 10 2008, 11:04 PM) ... Oct 14 2008, 07:58 PM dosomethin888 It all depends on what religion you practice. God ... Oct 14 2008, 01:01 AM kryogenix god fucking damnit Oct 14 2008, 09:34 AM Joss-eh-lime You are supposed to capitalize God when talking ab... Oct 14 2008, 07:43 PM NoSex QUOTE(dosomethin888 @ Oct 14 2008, 01:01 ... Oct 15 2008, 01:36 AM dosomethin888 QUOTE(NoSex @ Oct 15 2008, 12:36 AM) are ... Oct 20 2008, 02:10 AM NoSex QUOTE(dosomethin888 @ Oct 20 2008, 02:10 ... Oct 20 2008, 09:55 PM YukkeKay I think of 'God' as one person (or being, ... Oct 16 2008, 12:14 PM |
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