"if we each thought of ourselves as a small “i” with a sweet little dot"

This article from the New York Times examines the possible effects of the fact that the English language is the only one that capitalizes the word for self - I. Or, in technical terms, we use the majuscule "I."

I don't know if all the analysis is warranted; it is, after all, an accident caused by the fact that the word is an abbreviation of the original ich, and the fact that one letter all alone looks like an accident on a printed page.

But it's an interesting idea - especially for bloggers.