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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001759 | Dwarf Fortress | Typos/Grammar | public | 2010-05-05 07:32 | 2011-02-24 10:16 |
| Reporter | crossmr | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | low | Severity | trivial | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0001759: Dwarf has created Taron Merig, a ashen crossbow (should be "an") | ||||
| Description | nothing major, just a text bug. When artifacts are created the string doesn't check to see if what has been created starts with a vowel or not. So it always uses "a" whatever instead of properly using "an" in some situations. | ||||
| Tags | language | ||||
| related to | 0000295 | new | <Dwarf> has created <Artifact>, *a marble mechanisms* |
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This has been a general minor issue always, I believe. The difficulty is that "a"/"an" doesn't depend on spelling but on pronunciation, so pronunciation data have to be either generated or supplied for every language the game displays to be able to fix this. |
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"Taron Merig a ashen crossbow." I can see how 'h' or 'y' might be problematic but you'd think aeiou could be fixed. |
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Well, 'h' and 'y' depends on your pronunciation. In most cases, I think I'd pronounce them, so I'd take 'a', but I know some people like to ignore initial 'h's and 'y's and throw 'an's in front. Perhaps that could be an option you can set, then. As for on vowels, I think it's actually checking against the item (crossbow) rather than the entire phrase. Just speculation, though. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2010-05-05 07:32 | crossmr | New Issue | |
| 2010-05-05 08:47 | jfs | Note Added: 0006170 | |
| 2010-05-05 08:49 | jfs | Tag Attached: language | |
| 2010-05-05 09:04 |
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Category | Dwarf Mode -- Artifacts => Typos/Grammar |
| 2011-02-23 13:50 | Granite26 | Note Added: 0015433 | |
| 2011-02-23 16:31 |
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Relationship added | related to 0000295 |
| 2011-02-23 16:32 |
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Summary | Dwarf has created xxx a yyy => Dwarf has created Taron Merig, a ashen crossbow (should be "an") |
| 2011-02-24 10:16 | Infiltrator | Note Added: 0015450 |
