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minus-squarewhyrat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-25 days agoRight, if we’re talking about humans who are French… One gets capitalized the other does not. “French” is a proper noun “human” is not. But this is an English rule. If we were writing in French we would not capitalize the reference to the people of a specific nation.
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 days agoAnd if we were writing in German we’d capitalize every single noun, which is simultaneously more and less confusing imo, lol
minus-squareOkokimup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoI’ve been assuming the lemmy app I use is German in origin because it capitalizes a lot of nouns at random. Not all of them. I don’t know how it chooses.
Right, if we’re talking about humans who are French… One gets capitalized the other does not. “French” is a proper noun “human” is not.
But this is an English rule. If we were writing in French we would not capitalize the reference to the people of a specific nation.
And if we were writing in German we’d capitalize every single noun, which is simultaneously more and less confusing imo, lol
I’ve been assuming the lemmy app I use is German in origin because it capitalizes a lot of nouns at random. Not all of them. I don’t know how it chooses.