Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-34115-20150626063702/@comment-25626003-20150626233217

Snapper, what you're saying is fair and I'm not arguing it. The disconnect with you & me here is that just because you've seen it that way, doesn't make it correct. You know what a proper noun is, so I'm honestly lost as to why this even debatable. The word "clan" by itself isn't a proper noun because it's a broad term on it's own; there are many clans. When you're using this word next to a specific entity, the "Uchiha Clan" for example, the world "clan" becomes a proper noun because it's part of the name (the unique entity). The examples you brought up in this thread in regards to "hair", "chakra", and "fuinjutsu" are interesting, but as you seem to constantly bring up common usage, when and where have we seen "Uzumaki Hair", "Uzumaki Chakra", or "Uzumaki Fuinjutsu" written? These aren't references to unique entities anyway, they're references to attributes applicable to a number of members within the clan and they're never written like that (hence negating the "unique" part). If anything, it's written like the "Uzumaki Clan's fuinjutsu", or the "Uzumaki Clan's hair". You could even take "clan" word out of it, and it's grammatically sound. These are attributes (in the case of "hair", adjectives you might say), not distinct names. There is only ONE "Uzumaki Clan". That's why "Clan" is capitalized.