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Why do people always lowercase the h in human, but uppercase the C in Cylon? I would like to start a campaign to stamp out the indiscriminate title-casing of selective species. When I realized this discrepancy, I started lowercasing the c, but people like to gently "correct" me in posts. Cylon is neither a product/brand name nor an organization (Firefly-class ship, Nexus 6 replicant, the Alliance, the Mounties, Browncoats), nor a nationality/continental/planetary identity (Canadian, African, Bajoran, Betelgeusian, Vulcan), nor a religious identification (Jewish, Christian, Muslim) though admittedly, it could become that eventually. It's a classification no different than human in the series, yet across fandom, people treat it as more significant by uppercasing the c.

Date: 2006-02-02 02:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] escritoireazul.livejournal.com
Wow. I do not even follow that fandom (or watch the source material) but your thoughts, and all the comments, were really, really interesting. Yes.

Date: 2006-02-02 04:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
I get rather... obsessed with things like this. ;-)

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