>This is another example of 'propering' that we don't do in the Netherlands: I. We simply say 'ik'.

The reason for using uppercase for "I" should be abundantly clear to anybody who has read the Devil's Dictionary, and is related to what we have already been talking about. Let me quote the definition for "Zeus":

"ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names."