From: "Raymond Brown" <ray.brown@...>
> >But you're not a native speaker, are you? To a native speaker (given that
> >his/her dialect isn't divergent from High German), the cases and genders
> >come pretty naturally. Same with the somewhat impredictable plurals. The
> >noun capitalization rules, on the other hand, have no real counterpart in
> >spoken language, and thus have to be learnt actively by even native
> >speakers.
[snip]
> quite - as long ago as 1931 jespersen was saying much the same thing:
> "In an international language we might, perhaps we should, write
everything
> with small letters, as the rules for capitals are more or less arbitrary
in
> all languages - at present, however, I dare not propose that reform."
> [novial lexike]
Didn't the Bauhaus movement also support banishment of capital letters?
(That, and serifs. Uygh.)