Timeline for Michael is a New Zealander or Michael is New Zealander? Article before nationalities?
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| Apr 1, 2016 at 11:52 | comment | added | Jeremy Nottingham | China is another exception: "Chinese" is an adjective; a person from China is a "a Chinese person" rather than "a Chinese". Actually, it seems that most national adjectives ending in "-ese" cannot be used as nouns. | |
| Apr 1, 2016 at 11:15 | vote | accept | Corrina_Corrina | ||
| Apr 1, 2016 at 11:10 | vote | accept | Corrina_Corrina | ||
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| Mar 31, 2016 at 20:43 | comment | added | Voo | @ghostarbeiter Looking it up in the oxford dictionary, they don't capitalize "german" when used as an adjective. Although admittedly I'd write it capitalized too and it looks weird in lower letters. But what's the rule there? Adjectives are written in lower case, except when it's about nationalities? | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 20:36 | comment | added | ghostarbeiter | @Voo, in English it is always capitalized. Other languages may have different rules, for instance French would say "allemand" in lower case. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 17:18 | comment | added | Voo | Mhm now that I think about it - why is German capitalized in "Michael is German"? Since it's used as an adjective, shouldn't it be lower case? | |
| Mar 30, 2016 at 22:52 | comment | added | ghostarbeiter | @Damkerng_T., yes, "New Yorker" is a noun. You could say "I'm from New York", "I live in New York", or "I'm a New Yorker". | |
| Mar 30, 2016 at 19:23 | comment | added | KRyan | @DamkerngT. As a New Yorker, yes. That sounds weird/wrong. | |
| Mar 30, 2016 at 17:25 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | Out of my curiosity, do you find I'm New Yorker wrong? | |
| Mar 30, 2016 at 15:19 | history | answered | ghostarbeiter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |