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English Language weirdnesses #3091

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DorpsGek opened this issue Aug 4, 2009 · 2 comments
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English Language weirdnesses #3091

DorpsGek opened this issue Aug 4, 2009 · 2 comments
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DorpsGek commented Aug 4, 2009

TrueBrain opened the ticket and wrote:

While checking the Dutch translation, I found a lot of weird English sentences. Below are the ones I think are worth changing:

STR_SUBSIDY_TOOLTIP_CLICK_ON_SERVICE_TO_CENTER - uses 'service' but I guess 'subsidiary' is meant?
STR_ORDER_REFIT_FAILED - what kind of English is this? Very hard to translate in any real form

More to come I guess, but I forgot to store them before hand, and now I can't remember them ;)

Reported version: 0.7.1
Operating system: All

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DorpsGek commented Aug 4, 2009

Rubidium wrote:

About the first: it's definitely not about subsidiaries. Besides that "service" is (in English) a valid word for the string.
"7 a: a facility supplying some public demand " (Merriam Webster). Also in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_Main_Line# Operators they exclusively use the word service.

The second one: "Ordered refit failure stopped {VEHICLE}"? As in "Engine failure stopped {VEHICLE}", but then an "Ordered refit". On the other hand Order(ed) might be left out, but that might make it ambiguous as it really is a failure during the ordered (as in: in the vehicle orders described) refit.

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DorpsGek commented Aug 6, 2009

Rubidium closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Fixed

In r17096

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