Capitalizing Races?
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Capitalizing Races?
I've been thinking...should the names of races in Wesnoth be capitalized or not? Different human races are, so why shouldn't the races in Wesnoth? Well, us humans usually don't capitalize our own race, (human, not African American, or Caucasian, or something else) so maybe the races in Wesnoth shouldn't be capitalized. I'm not really sure, but I leaning toward capitalizing.
Wesnothian races are actually species. I spent a lot of time when I was first hired de-capitalizing "race" names. IMO, an elf is an elf, not an Elf. I would capitalize them if they were in traditional latin binomial nomenclature, but for common race names I'm against it, just like you pointed out with the human (Homo sapiens ) example. If the dev decision goes the other way, I'm in for some work.
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BTW, I disagree that Elves and Men are separate species. They can interbreed, IIRC. (Although I suppose we've never actually seen interbreeding in any official campaigns...)
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Yeah, occaisonally a human will take a fancy to a hot elf babe. I wonder what the result would look like?
EDIT: more on the subject, I think there is no need to capitalize races.
EDIT: more on the subject, I think there is no need to capitalize races.
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So what? Lions and tigers can interbreed.turin wrote:BTW, I disagree that Elves and Men are separate species. They can interbreed, IIRC.
Orcs and humans are also supposed to be able to interbreed. Half-orcs anyone?turin wrote:BTW, I disagree that Elves and Men are separate species. They can interbreed, IIRC. (Although I suppose we've never actually seen interbreeding in any official campaigns...)
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NeoPhile wrote:So can donkeys and horses. However they are only the same species if those half-breeds can produce their own offspring.
You should test in-game to see if the Undead units can breed with the other Wesnothian races, and if so, if their offspring can progenate. If they can, then the Undead are not a different species.Ken Oh wrote:I really don't care either way, but since I'm near finished an undead campaign, maybe I should make sure things are in the right caps.
Now, in order to run this test you'll need to download the Wesnoth Coffee mod...
On an other note, what's up with calling elven units elvish something, dwarves dwarvish something and orcs orcish something? For an example calling a unit "Elvish Archer" sounds like it's an elf-like archer, but not necessarily an elf.
At least the rest of the species' units are named "properly" (drakes are called drakes, not drake-ish).
At least the rest of the species' units are named "properly" (drakes are called drakes, not drake-ish).
At this point I'd like to bring up again my proposal to not have the race name be part of the unit name - instead have it say something like
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Kalenz
strong,quick
_Archer_
wood elf
sword
5-2
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