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0 pointsjrockway15y ago0 comments

We still do this in English; consider "Free software" versus "free software". The first means "libre", the second means "zero cost".

It's not an issue of importance but of making a generic word into one with specific meaning.

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nitrogen15y ago

It seems to me that this still falls under the current rule of capitalizing proper nouns, though in this instance the nouns are made proper for exactly the reason you stated.

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