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This fix got forgotten in my mailbox. I have the fix with the same changes, except I now keep the "devolved" in the purhepecha.ruleset. Joan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joan Creus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09/09/2007 14:22 Subject: Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39687) Typos in nation rulesets To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are right. It sounded strange to me, and I looked it up, but I didn't find the third meaning that says: grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated".Yep, devolve is fine. Joan 2007/9/8, Daniel Markstedt < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39687 > > > On 9/8/07, Joan Creus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39687 > > > > > > > This transaction appears to have no content > > > > I think I have found a few typos in several nations; check them out, > > particularly two that are in proper nouns, one in khwarezmian and the > other > > in breton.ruleset > > > > Joan > > > > They look like good fixes. Except one in purhepecha.ruleset - I do > think "devolved into violence" is proper English. > > ~Daniel > > >This fix got forgotten in my mailbox. I have the fix with the same changes, except I now keep the "devolved" in the purhepecha.ruleset.
Joan
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From: Joan Creus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 09/09/2007 14:22
Subject: Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39687) Typos in nation rulesets
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You are right. It sounded strange to me, and I looked it up, but I didn't find the third meaning that says: grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated". Yep, devolve is fine.
Joan
2007/9/8, Daniel Markstedt <
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On 9/8/07, Joan Creus <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
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> I think I have found a few typos in several nations; check them out,
> particularly two that are in proper nouns, one in khwarezmian and the other
> in breton.ruleset
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> Joan
>
They look like good fixes. Except one in purhepecha.ruleset - I do
think "devolved into violence" is proper English.
~Daniel
Index: phoenician.ruleset
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--- phoenician.ruleset (revision 14228)
+++ phoenician.ruleset (working copy)
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
coastal regions of Lebanon and Syria. They spoke a Canaanite language\
related to Hebrew and were famed mariners. Their alphabet served as the\
source of the Greek alphabet, and from there evolved into the Etruscan\
- and Latin alphabets as well. The Greeks and Romans new them for their\
+ and Latin alphabets as well. The Greeks and Romans knew them for their\
manufacture of purple dye from the myrex shell, which gave them their\
- Greek and Latin names. They refered to themselves a Kan'ani and thier\
+ Greek and Latin names. They refered to themselves a Kan'ani and their\
Punic (Carthaginian) descendents in St. Augustine's day called themselves\
Chanani.")
leader=
Index: chola.ruleset
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--- chola.ruleset (revision 14228)
+++ chola.ruleset (working copy)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
plural=_("?plural:Cholas")
groups="Asian", "Ancient"
-legend=_("The Cholas were a Tamil dynasty in centered in southern India and\
+legend=_("The Cholas were a Tamil dynasty centered in southern India and\
were rare in their level of influence in northern India. They began as a\
tributary state to the Pallavas, but in the 9th century their power began\
to grow. During the 11th century, they lead expeditions against other\
Index: laotian.ruleset
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--- laotian.ruleset (revision 14228)
+++ laotian.ruleset (working copy)
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
century, Laos became part of French Indochina.\
French rule ended with independence in 1946 followed\
by 30 years of civil war. In 1975 the communist Pathet\
- Lao established strict solicalist regime. However,\
+ Lao established a strict socialist regime. However,\
in 1986 the liberalization and a gradual return to\
private enterpise started.")
Index: khwarezmian.ruleset
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--- khwarezmian.ruleset (revision 14228)
+++ khwarezmian.ruleset (working copy)
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
controlling portions of the Silk Road. It was loosely controlled as a\
satrapy under the Achaemenid and Sassanid Persian dynasties and was mythic\
homeland of Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism. Following the\
- introduction of Islam, Khwarezm tended to be devided into two seperate\
- kingdoms, but was united under the Turkic Anushtegihidy dynasty, which\
+ introduction of Islam, Khwarezm tended to be divided into two separate\
+ kingdoms, but was united under the Turkic Anushtiginid dynasty, which\
lasted from 1097 until Chinggis Khan conquered it in 1231.")
leader=
Index: kurd.ruleset
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--- kurd.ruleset (revision 14228)
+++ kurd.ruleset (working copy)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
name=_("Kurdish")
plural=_("?plural:Kurds")
-groups=_("Asian"), _("Medieval")
+groups="Asian", "Medieval"
legend=_("The Kurds are a distinct ethno-linguistic group speaking an\
Indo-Aryan language. Their traditional homeland Kurdistan is situated in\
northern Middle East and partitioned between Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and\
Index: breton.ruleset
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--- breton.ruleset (revision 14228)
+++ breton.ruleset (working copy)
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
name=_("Breton")
plural=_("?plural:Bretons")
groups="Medieval", "European"
-legend=_("Known to the Romans as Amorica, Brittany has been Celtic speaking\
- for many centuries before Britons arrive in the peninsula a mercenaries,\
+legend=_("Known to the Romans as Armorica, Brittany had been Celtic speaking\
+ for many centuries before Britons arrived in the peninsula as mercenaries,\
colonists and refugees in response to the chaos in Gaul and the invasion\
of Britain by Germanic tribes in the fifth century CE. Over the centuries,\
use of the Breton language has been pushed towards the west of the\
Index: kongo.ruleset
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--- kongo.ruleset (revision 14228)
+++ kongo.ruleset (working copy)
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
legend=_("This Kingdom, lasting from roughly 1400 CE until the late 19th\
century, existed in the present-day countries of Angola and the Democratic\
- Republic of the Congo. Soon after its formation, Portuguese exlporers,\
+ Republic of the Congo. Soon after its formation, Portuguese explorers,\
missionaries and slavers began to arrive and exerted considerable influence\
in the Kingdom.")
Index: purhepecha.ruleset
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--- purhepecha.ruleset (revision 14228)
+++ purhepecha.ruleset (working copy)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
Michoacan, the heart of a former empire known to them as Irechecua\
Tzintzuntzani, meaning the \"lands of Tzintzuntzan,\" their capital city.\
Their kings were the perennial enemy of the Aztec empire, who attempted an\
- unsuccessful invasion of the P'urhepecha lands. When the Spanish arrived\
+ unsuccessful invasion of the P'urhepecha lands. When the Spanish arrived and\
began their conquest of Mexico in 1519, the Aztecs sent an embassy seeking\
the support of the P'urhepecha, but was refused. The conquistadores'\
reputation preceded them and the P'urhepecha offered to become a subject\
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