On 03/19/13 01:39 AM, Otto J. Makela wrote:
On 2013-03-19 05:18, Kevin Zheng wrote:
Proper nouns should be capitalized, but Arena Guard appears
capitalized. On the other hand, ticket vendor is not capitalized.
Where do we typically draw the line between a generic noun and a proper
noun?
There is also a long-standing problem that there are objects which are
keys and objects which are Keys. Same with swords and some other
categories.
This of course comes up with the command line commands like drop.
For normal objects (swords, keys, etc) I would say they should all be lower
case.
Normal English would dictate that things like Arena Guard, ticket vendor, etc,
should all be lower case, since as noted, they are not proper nouns.
OTOH, if other conversations refer to these NPCs, it would be nice to give
them a proper if a particular one has to be talked to, eg, 'talk to arena guard
John'. Otherwise, if there are 5 'arena guards', but only the 'Arena Guard'
holds a conversation, that just gets confusing.
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