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RE: RP Pet peeves. What's yours? |
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07-03-2015, 03:40 PM
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(07-03-2015, 01:04 PM)Nero Wrote: Capitalization, or the lack thereof. I get that things like "human", "elf", "bear" are lowercase, but the terms Hyur, Elezen, and Roegadyn are proper nouns to me and thus deserve the respect of a proper noun.

Well, not quite.  Proper nouns are names.  You may be assuming that they should begin with capital letters because of real-world demonyms that are based on proper nouns (i.e. African, European, American) which are normally used for races on Earth.  But race names like lalafell, roegadyn, miqo'te are not proper nouns - you would still use an article to refer to them, like "the miqo'te" or "the roegadyn," in a way you wouldn't for proper nouns, i.e. "the Barack Obama," "the New York," and so on.

That having been said, I've seen the game using capital letters to refer to the races also, as well as not doing it at times.  My guess is that this has to do with the fact that most real-world race descriptors have a proper noun as their root word, so it doesn't quite look right to us, intuitively, to see "lalafell" or "miqo'te" without capitalization, but it's closer to something like "gorilla" and "monkey" and "gnome," because you could rightly refer to "a lalafell" or "the lalafell." 

But I guess what really determines it is usage in the game world.  I confess I haven't paid a lot of attention to the consistency with which the race names are capitalized but I don't think they always are, are they?  In dialogue, I mean.

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RP Pet peeves. What's yours? - by Ari Kagon - 06-30-2015, 03:00 PM
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