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It's common practice in the English language to write the nominative singular first person pronoun as "I" and second personal pronouns as "thou", "you" and so forth. This is very unusual. I am unaware of any other language which does so. In English itself, the oblique and genitive equivalents are written with a lower-case initial letter. Consequently, i write "i" rather than "I". It is fairly common also to write the second personal pronouns with initial capitals. I don't usually bring myself to do that. The reason i write "i" is neither laziness nor motivated exclusively by low self-esteem but out of a wish to be consistent with other languages.