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I thought there's only one sun regarding of whether you capitalize it or not, but that moon was generic.
by mehrdadn 8y ago
I thought there's only one sun regarding of whether you capitalize it or not, but that moon was generic.
- Freak_NL 8y agoThey are both generic, but because the context of most texts we write is here on Earth, 'sun' and 'moon' tend to be used as proper names would, but without capitalisation. That these are essentially generic nouns can show up more clearly in astronomical texts and of course in literature (science fiction).
- dragonwriter 8y ago“sun” is generic but rarely used as such instead of the proper noun “Sun” outside of interstellar fiction, because “star” is available and denotatively equivalent. (“sun” has a stronger connotation that the object's importance is relative to one or more planets, though.)