Igx, The Dreaming Drummer... writes: > I've got an awful trying time to translate "Quincy" as a color > (data/multiplayer/game.ruleset:248)...
You're not the first; see <http://gna.org/bugs/?16884>. > Would anyone be kind enough to give me clue ? an URL where this > color would be described or drawn ? As a native English speaker: I have no idea, and nor has anyone else I've asked :) In the Oxford English Dictionary, "Quincy" is defined as "A dry white wine produced from Sauvignon blanc grapes grown in the Loire valley near the French village of Quincy." Which is no help. An image search for "quince" (the fruit: cognassier?) suggests that the skin is yellow with perhaps a hint of green. The entry for "quince" has several quotations indicating that "quince-coloured" is a phrase that is used, but none of them actually indicate what colour it is: quince-coloured adj. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 226 An octangular saloon, with a table of *quince-coloured marble in the center, round which fifteen persons may sit. 1880 Athens (Ohio) Messenger 17 June 5/2 There are..quince colored cherries. 1907 J. Joyce Let. 1 Mar. (1966) II. 218 They were low-sized and quince-coloured. 1997 Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 6 July 1 j, The precocious patriot..was being coached by a Colonial woman in a quince-colored frock. A Google search for "quince-coloured" does turn up this in an English-German biological dictionary(!): "quitte(n)gelb: quince-coloured, meline, *yellow* as a quince" (my emphasis). (Also "quince-coloured moon".) So the answer is probably: yellow :) _______________________________________________ Freeciv-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-i18n
