Talk:Furtive Pygmy/@comment-173.55.147.213-20131227102125/@comment-77.248.59.90-20140109102245

Hmmm, You're somewhat right.

Since Pygmy isn't a name either but a noun it should be accompanied by an article, so in your reasoning it should be The Pygmy not just Pygmy. However since both Pygmy and Futive are capitalised it indicates that it might indeed be part of his "name" and that this is used to distinguish this particular pygmy form the Chubby Pygmy, the Happy Pygmy and the Grammatically correct Pygmy..

It's thus very well possible (and grants you points for style as well) to call this one The Furtive One or something like that. By te way, the way you react to people calling this pygmy "Furtive" (which is still a sound alternative in spoken language and thus equally appropriate in a conversation in text) is called "nitpicking".