I know how you feel about American vs. Commonwealth spelling. I used the
‐our spelling for a while, but eventually decided it felt kind of cheeky to start changing Oddworld’s spelling. Outlaw, Intern, and Chronicler are the correct species names, are and the names always used to refer to members of those races.
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When you said we would treat the capitalisation of Mudokuns/Glukkons etc. more as country inhabitants (Americans was your example), rather than a race (Humans was my example), are you saying that the different races should be treated (in capitalisation) as if to be all in the same race that just look different to each other (Such as how Chinese people look different to British people)?
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I’m not trying to suggest that different developed Oddworld races are members of the same species, but the way have evolved distinct cultures is comparable to the emergence of different Earth cultures, even if most Oddworld races serve more to reflect aspects of humanity than human cultures. On Earth, we usually refer to a people by their demonym, an adaptation of the name of the area they originate from. ‘Mudokon’ is a demonym because it is derived from the name of the country/continent Mudos (and not the other way around). I’m not assuming that other developed species’ names are demonyms, but the reason for capitalizing them is just the same.
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I wondered why people capitalise Oddworldian things other than making the forum look tidy.
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It’s nothing to do with tidiness or OWF, it’s the capitalization used by OWI.