Comment on Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895? Take a LookparentComments−jrockway15yWe 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.−nitrogen15yIt 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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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.
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.