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Re:The Uninhabitable Earth by ancarda on Monday July 10, 2017 @09:07AM (#14735535)
Out of interest, why don't you capitalize "American"?

Edit: I'm genuinely curious and not asking to annoy anyone; I might be misunderstanding grammar rules or rules of HN. I ask because I'm not sure this was a mistake; all over the web I see people who write with good grammar, but never capitalize "American". Is it considered rude to capitalize "American"?

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Re:The Uninhabitable Earth by YCode on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:13AM (#14736077)
HN frowns on meta discussion.

For what it's worth, it should be capitalized but I suspect Americans don't formally discuss themselves in the third person enough to have that grammar rule down.

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Re:The Uninhabitable Earth by gambiting on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:03AM (#14735976)
I don't know about OP, but in some languages(Polish for example) you capitalize proper nouns(so you would capitalize America) but not adjectives(so American or Polish or German would never be capitalized) - so it could be just a cross-language mistake.
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