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grammatical errors in Seasons English

Posted: 12 December 2012, 01:28
by tobylongbeach
"Miss Butterfly" who is registered as a lady on her profile was referred to as "he". She should be referred to as "she" by messages from the game, specifically referring to the summoning gauge. I realize other languages have nongendered third person pronouns but to be grammatically correct in English, the message should correspond to the gender of the person.

Re: grammatical errors in Seasons English

Posted: 13 December 2012, 06:06
by Phelan
Corresponding to the gender would make the strings and the code much more complicated (I think. I'm not a developer).
But "his" could easily be changed to "his/hers", if you believe it works better.

If you'd like me to change it to that, feel free to pm me, and I'll do it.

Re: grammatical errors in Seasons English

Posted: 14 December 2012, 18:49
by Phelan
tobylongbeach contacted me, and suggested that these phrases could be improved by using "[player_name]'s [something]", instead of "[player_name] uses his [something]".

I'm changing some of the strings to this new mode, the ones where I don't think much change has to happen. Let me know if the new ones feel strange.

Edit: Also, this belongs more in the translation forum, maybe? Not sure if this should be in the Bugs forum.