And if we were writing in German we'd capitalize every single noun, which is simultaneously more and less confusing imo, lol

ah, thanks!

Sometimes it's also acknowledged in universe. Like that early Babylon 5 episode when there is a day of Earth culture or something and they showcase their hundreds of religions, and all the aliens are like "holy shit we only have one!".

Mass Effect is also kida guilty of that, though it's more of "human genetic diversity" that makes them special (not sure if it's better or worse).

French has a specific quirk (one among a metric ton of others) with this subject. The country and the country's people names get a capital, but the nationality adjective does not.

Les Anglais d'Angleterre sont des personnes anglaises.

The English from England are English people.

I think it may also be the case for all Romance languages.

At the moment, if you're talking about Earth as a territory, it gets capitalised as a proper noun. It's not got a universal culture that everyone from Earth participates in, so there's not a proper noun to identify that culture.

We don't capitalise "human", though. Treating them as equals would be not capitalising it

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.

No way! I'm Us from Home too! Small universe

You're not that far off, really.

Damn lol, TIL.

We don’t capitalize “human” because as of now there are no other intelligent species we have relationships with on that level; there’s no need to add that level of “respect” to the word. But if we did make first contact with an intelligent alien species, I wouldn’t be surprised if cultural conventions like whether or not to capitalize the names of sentient species became a thing.

I'm not sure I see why we'd do that when we don't already draw the distinction that way between ourselves and other animals. The only way I see "Human" as a proper noun in English is if we wind up uniting under "the Human Federation" or something like that and it specifically becomes the demonym of the polity we belong to

If I remember correctly Centauris also have a big holiday where they celebrate how they genocided some other race on Centauri Prime.

Right now they have a problem making just a good choice-based narrative game.

The concept of proper nouns is so stupid and only leads to discussions like these.

There are no improper Nouns!

Biomes on planets often too

Hey, so I looked it up again and you're not actually dumb. Grizzlys and Kodiaks are sub-species, so when I said they aren't species that was only half true.

However, only the first part is capitalised, so it's Grizzly bear and Kodiak bear, maybe because bear is the species and Grizzly/Kodiak isn't.