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    Commentary: Fanfare for the common noun

    by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times May 10, 2018 3 minutes

    Friedrich Trump, the sickly barber who fled military service in Germany to run restaurant-brothels during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, might have used them.

    Friedrich's father, Christian Johannes Trump, who stayed in Bavaria, almost definitely did.

    And Friedrich's grandson - currently of Washington, D.C. - uses them too, subject to presidential whim. When you're a star, they let you do it.

    I'm talking about initial capital letters for nouns. In German, all nouns - proper and common - are capitalized.

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