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But ‘Mandalorian’ should be capitalized. They’re not a different species, most of them are human. They’re a culture/nationality/ethnicity/religious cult.
The same may go for Klingon (though I’m not as familiar with Star Trek, so I can’t be sure). Maybe it shouldn’t be capitalized when you’re referring to the species, but it may be that the word is typically used to refer to the culture/ethnicity, rather than the species.
Star Trek governing bodies tend to include the founding species in their name so citizens of “The Klingon Empire” can be called “Klingons” regardless of whether or not they’re actually of the klingon species. The same doesn’t apply to any species like humans who are citizens of The Federation, unless you’re talking about the Mirror-universe Terrans who are citizens of The Terran Empire.
I don’t get the confusion. It’s just a sign of respect, an acknowledgement that these other alien species are truly our equals. Or at the very least, equal enough that it would be disrespectful to refer to them the same way we do animals.
If history truly rhymes, the aliens are going to be named “hello” or whatever the humans hear them saying often, unless the aliens can visibly destroy us in a fight.
these got dam helloans stealing our jobs
If only it had no stupid third party launcher, I’d love to play Mass Effect again. Great series.
I do have it on 360, I could always play on that I suppose.
Foreign cultures get capitalized names, animals do not.
Those people are Klingons, their species is klingon. They come from Qo’nos.
That’s because all sci-fi alien species are monocultures (Mass Effect included though).
That’s because all sci-fi alien species are monocultures
And all sci-fi planets have exactly one type of terrain/biome.
You got desert planets, swamp planets, forest planets, ice planets, hell – even city planets … but you never see any planet that has similar diversity to Earth … or even similar diversity to California. In sci-fi, every planet looks the same across its entire surface.
My head canon is that the shows simply show the aliens from a human perspective. A Klingon would laugh if you told them Klingons are a monoculture. In fact, they would probably pull out a knife and threaten to slit your throat:
DO ALL KLINGONS LOOK ALIKE TO YOU??
Nitpick: it’s absolutely correct to capitalise Mandalorian as it’s a territory/culture with a proper noun.
Read the post again. Why do we conceptualise these aliens as a culture, rather than a species? Why did we name them after their planet?
Read the post again, they don’t know Mandalorian is a culture and not a species, they list them among species , before talking about culture. Nitpick posts have to have their facts straight, lest they be nitpicked themselves.
I see. I did not know
Yeah … most Mandalorians are human.
The universal translator is doing its best not to call everyone Us from the planet Home.
Or Dirt.
Aren’t humans commonly referred to as Earthlings? I do respect the point you are making, especially with reference to the Star Trek species.
We’re Terrans from Terra.
Probably taken from some latin language to sound cooler (eg: italians) where the Earth is called Terra
I thought we were Humans from Hume.
Not Kantians from Kant?
Some people also claim they’re just platonic. I don’t know if Plato is a planet, though.
Did you hear about Plato? That’s messed up, right?
In real life they would probably be named after the solar system or general galactic region rather than home planet too, so hell yeah!
It’s gonna be at least 20 years before another studio attempts a choice-based narrative trilogy with save imports and it’s probably going to suck.
What about in German?
All nouns are capitalised in German, so you don’t have this weird dichotomy in the first place…
checks definition of a proper noun
A proper noun is a specific (i.e., not generic) name for a particular person, place, or thing.
😯 Tumblr user is right!
also kind of embarrassed that I had to Google the definition to double check, because:
I’ve been doing a course on “Foundations of Writing”, inspired by the historical school syllabus The Trivium once used across Europe.
It explores the rigid - but generally unwritten - rules of how the English language works, so among them was that definition of when to capitalise words. I found that particular fascinating because when I learned it at school it was just explained as “names of places people or things” which isn’t significantly more simple than the afforementioned, correct definition.
So by that modern-school rule, one would perhaps assume the name of species names (or nationality names) falls under the capitalisation rule - but alas, no!
I think it’s pretty obvious that humanity is a culture, and it’s not a very good one. I’m otherkin; I don’t identify as human. I wouldn’t want to be a human, because humanity as a construct is used to justify so much evil. When people wanted to do the slave trade or the holocaust or colonisation, they did it by stripping humanity from these groups. Because human culture says it’s acceptable to treat nonhumans this way. And that’s why I want nothing to do with such a toxic construct. I’m not interested in appealing to colonial values.
