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    "Carcere" just means "jail/gaol". It's not a proper noun, so does not need to be capitalized in the middle of a sentence.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
    "Carcere" just means "jail/gaol". It's not a proper noun, so does not need to be capitalized in the middle of a sentence.
    It could still be treated as one, nonetheless. Most people playing this wouldn't know what 'Carcere' even means so they would just assume that it should be a proper noun, and since the game delineates it as a specified location, it arguably should be treated as one.

    I'd even go so far as to call this a 'localization failure', given how rarely do we see the root word for 'incarcerated'. The Japanese text probably just called it a 'jail' or 'prison', so it would have been better to just stick with the translated script content and not try to fluff it up with garbage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
    "Carcere" just means "jail/gaol". It's not a proper noun, so does not need to be capitalized in the middle of a sentence.
    I disagree on that aspect. If you just say "the carcere" that's fine, but "Carcere IV" is the specific carcere's name and I would expect it to be treated as a proper noun.

    It's like the difference between "the high school" and "Exampleton High School".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
    It's like the difference between "the high school" and "Exampleton High School".
    That's not a great analogy. "Exampleton High School" is a named high school. If the high schools in an area were simply numbered, it would be fine to common case them: high school I, high school II, high school III, etc.

    Cf. page 1, page 2, page 3; step I, step II, step III.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
    That's not a great analogy. "Exampleton High School" is a named high school. If the high schools in an area were simply numbered, it would be fine to common case them: high school I, high school II, high school III, etc.

    Cf. page 1, page 2, page 3; step I, step II, step III.
    Disagree again, because it's a location. Think 'District 3', 'Ward III', 'Precinct III', 'Region III', etc. When elections role around, specific numbered precincts are often capitalized and treated as proper nouns because they encapsulate a whole area.

    Hell there are whole townships and even businesses named after the ward they were recognized to exist in, like Ward III (which is a bar in New York), but that's a stretch.
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