Coal Baron: Grammar error in game logs

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truehobbit
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Coal Baron: Grammar error in game logs

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I couldn't find the game log text in the translation pages, so I thought I'd alert folks in charge here:

In the game logs, in the majority scoring it says: 1th majority/2th majority/3th majority instead of 1st/2nd/3rd
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Thomas
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Re: Coal Baron: Grammar error in game logs

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You probably mean the following text:

„${player_name} scores ${p} points for the ${i}th majority (with ${n} elements)“

The problem is, that this text always uses „th“, regardless of the value of placeholder ${i}.

This can only be solved by the developer. The developer could add text variants for 1, 2,3:

„${player_name} scores ${p} points for the 1st majority (with ${n} elements)“
„${player_name} scores ${p} points for the 2nd majority (with ${n} elements)“
„${player_name} scores ${p} points for the $3rd majority (with ${n} elements)“

This would solve the issue for English and some other languages, but many there exist some languages, where ordinals are different for other numbers, too. If yoimprefer this solution, you should contact the developer, best way would be to create a bug report at https://boardgamearena.com/bugs

You could work around this by using an English to English translation, that does not use „th“ at all:
„${player_name} scores ${p} points for majority ${i} (with ${n} elements)“

This workaround avoids using ordinals, but slightly changes the grammar of the sentence.
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