Sini Ruohomaa wrote:
> Like, do not use "Danish" in the meaning "the Danish people", just use
> it for "the Danish-controlled submarine".
That's how "the Danes" (nation_plural) are now used. (PR#39974)
> And then standardize these uses (for example, the elimination of
> %s's -> "Danes's" or "John's" in favour of Danish).
>
All done. (PR#39971)
> The Finnish translation both for Danes and Danish starts with a
> non-capital letter (tanskalaiset, tanskalaisten), so when I have to use
> it in the start of a sentence, I probably just have to hope
> capitalization is taken care of somewhere else. ;)
>
I've been trying to keep these away from the beginning of the sentence,
usually by sticking "The %s" on it. Perhaps nation_article_plural() to
allow gender, cases, whatever is needed?
There are a lot of unit names used at the beginning. I was thinking about
unit_article() to allow gender.
> At the moment, I don't think I particularly need more forms or a
> renaming of a single form ("Denmark" would be nice for the nation
> selection, of course, but not sure if it's worth everyone else's
> trouble).
Isn't that what used to be in the name= field? But now is an adjective?
> I'd need an inflection engine to make a bunch of sentences not
> need kludgeing (to the Danish -> tanskalaisille, for the Danish ->
> tanskalaisia varten, into Manhattan -> Manhattaniin etc), but that's
> beyond Freeciv scope.
>
Especially as the cities are not translated at all.
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