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Posted January 14, 2015
Hi. I noticed that English, Deutsch and Turk languages are all begin in capital letter in description of games.
Other languages begin from lowercase letter.

Take for example Mount & Blade: Warband:
Languages: Text only: 中文, český, Deutsch, English, español, français, magyar, polski, Türkçe

I think GOG's database has those languages stored with uppercase letter. So publishers/gog's managers just click languages. Maybe not, not sure.
All i know is that this should be fixed.
Post edited January 14, 2015 by vsr
Posted January 14, 2015
I'm not sure if this doesn't have something to do with the capitalization rules for each language.
Posted January 14, 2015
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vsr: Hi. I noticed that English, Deutsch and Turk languages are all begin in capital letter in description of games.
Other languages begin from lowercase letter.

Take for example Mount & Blade: Warband:
Languages: Text only: 中文, český, Deutsch, English, español, français, magyar, polski, Türkçe

I think GOG's database has those languages stored with uppercase letter. So publishers/gog's managers just click languages. Maybe not, not sure.
All i know is that this should be fixed.
The reason lies in the rules of each language. :)

If a language's grammar/spelling says the names of languages are words that NEED capital letters, they get them (i.e. English, where certain nouns get capitalised, or German (Deutsch), where all nouns begin with capital letters).

However, if a language requires you to write language names in lower case (i.e. Polish - where the names of languages are treated as adjectives and not proper nouns).

So, if we're writing the name of the language in the given language, we use that language's rules - hence "English" and "Deutsch" standing next to lowercase "polski" or "český". :) If we were writing all in English, we'd capitalise all - if we were writing all in Polish, all would get a lowercase start.
Posted January 14, 2015
There's also a separate French general forum in addition to the English ones so you could claim that those 2 languages are being shown favoritism for that too...
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vsr: Hi. I noticed that English, Deutsch and Turk languages are all begin in capital letter in description of games.
Other languages begin from lowercase letter.

Take for example Mount & Blade: Warband:
Languages: Text only: 中文, český, Deutsch, English, español, français, magyar, polski, Türkçe

I think GOG's database has those languages stored with uppercase letter. So publishers/gog's managers just click languages. Maybe not, not sure.
All i know is that this should be fixed.
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Ciris: The reason lies in the rules of each language. :)

If a language's grammar/spelling says the names of languages are words that NEED capital letters, they get them (i.e. English, where certain nouns get capitalised, or German (Deutsch), where all nouns begin with capital letters).

However, if a language requires you to write language names in lower case (i.e. Polish - where the names of languages are treated as adjectives and not proper nouns).

So, if we're writing the name of the language in the given language, we use that language's rules - hence "English" and "Deutsch" standing next to lowercase "polski" or "český". :) If we were writing all in English, we'd capitalise all - if we were writing all in Polish, all would get a lowercase start.
Wow, that's actually really interesting - there's 2 or 3 things about languages I've learned in there!
Post edited January 14, 2015 by Fever_Discordia
Posted January 14, 2015
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Fever_Discordia: There's also a separate French general forum in addition to the English ones so you could claim that those 2 languages are being shown favoritism for that too...
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Ciris: The reason lies in the rules of each language. :)

If a language's grammar/spelling says the names of languages are words that NEED capital letters, they get them (i.e. English, where certain nouns get capitalised, or German (Deutsch), where all nouns begin with capital letters).

However, if a language requires you to write language names in lower case (i.e. Polish - where the names of languages are treated as adjectives and not proper nouns).

So, if we're writing the name of the language in the given language, we use that language's rules - hence "English" and "Deutsch" standing next to lowercase "polski" or "český". :) If we were writing all in English, we'd capitalise all - if we were writing all in Polish, all would get a lowercase start.
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Fever_Discordia: Wow, that's actually really interesting - there's 2 or 3 things about languages I've learned in there!
*salutes* my inner linguist fanatic is beaming with joy :D
Posted January 14, 2015
STOP STOP STOP, let me get my notebook!


Okay start over.
Posted January 14, 2015
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vsr: Hi. I noticed that English, Deutsch and Turk languages are all begin in capital letter in description of games.
Other languages begin from lowercase letter.

Take for example Mount & Blade: Warband:
Languages: Text only: 中文, český, Deutsch, English, español, français, magyar, polski, Türkçe

I think GOG's database has those languages stored with uppercase letter. So publishers/gog's managers just click languages. Maybe not, not sure.
All i know is that this should be fixed.
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Ciris: The reason lies in the rules of each language. :)

If a language's grammar/spelling says the names of languages are words that NEED capital letters, they get them (i.e. English, where certain nouns get capitalised, or German (Deutsch), where all nouns begin with capital letters).

However, if a language requires you to write language names in lower case (i.e. Polish - where the names of languages are treated as adjectives and not proper nouns).

So, if we're writing the name of the language in the given language, we use that language's rules - hence "English" and "Deutsch" standing next to lowercase "polski" or "český". :) If we were writing all in English, we'd capitalise all - if we were writing all in Polish, all would get a lowercase start.
Ok, thank you for clarification. :)
I learned something new today too. ;)
Posted January 14, 2015
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tinyE: STOP STOP STOP, let me get my notebook!

Okay start over.
LESSON 1: Languages have rules.

LESSON 2: Those tend to differ*.

LESSON 3: *especially when it's languages from different language families (i.e. romance vs. germanic vs. slavic)

Basically, that's it :D
Posted January 14, 2015
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tinyE: STOP STOP STOP, let me get my notebook!

Okay start over.
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Ciris: LESSON 1: Languages have rules.

LESSON 2: Those tend to differ*.

LESSON 3: *especially when it's languages from different language families (i.e. romance vs. germanic vs. slavic)

Basically, that's it :D
LESSON 4: And then we have English, which is akin to 'take every human language, shove them all down into a mixer, blend until it's mostly liquid, then pick out the few remaining solid bits and call it "English"'.

EDIT: Which, incidentally, is quite similar to what I've heard about English cooking. Take the ingredients, put them all into the pot, boil until it's all fallen to bits or been liquefied, then call it "food".
Post edited January 14, 2015 by Maighstir
Posted January 14, 2015
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Ciris: ...
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Maighstir: ...
EDIT: Which, incidentally, is quite similar to what I've heard about English cooking. Take the ingredients, put them all into the pot, boil until it's all fallen to bits or been liquefied, then call it "food".
You seem to have forgotten the "proceed to give it an absolutely ridiculous name" step :D Toad in the hole, bubble and squeak, stargazey pie (with fish heads with eyes still in sticking out), spotted dick, singing hinnies, angels on horseback... The list just goes on :D
Posted January 14, 2015
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Maighstir: ...
EDIT: Which, incidentally, is quite similar to what I've heard about English cooking. Take the ingredients, put them all into the pot, boil until it's all fallen to bits or been liquefied, then call it "food".
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Ciris: You seem to have forgotten the "proceed to give it an absolutely ridiculous name" step :D Toad in the hole, bubble and squeak, stargazey pie (with fish heads with eyes still in sticking out), spotted dick, singing hinnies, angels on horseback... The list just goes on :D
I'm not too well-versed into the world of British food, hence "what I've heard". I might have heard about spotted dick, but can't seem to remember ever having heard the other names.
Posted January 14, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntVtlYcQNbs
Posted January 14, 2015
Actually, deutsch or Deutsch is optional. Deutsch is better but deutsch would not be wrong.
Posted January 14, 2015
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Ciris: You seem to have forgotten the "proceed to give it an absolutely ridiculous name" step :D
Well, that may be because all the "good" food names have already been taken... by towns and villages. ;)
Posted January 14, 2015
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Ciris: LESSON 1: Languages have rules.

LESSON 2: Those tend to differ*.

LESSON 3: *especially when it's languages from different language families (i.e. romance vs. germanic vs. slavic)

Basically, that's it :D
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Maighstir: LESSON 4: And then we have English, which is akin to 'take every human language, shove them all down into a mixer, blend until it's mostly liquid, then pick out the few remaining solid bits and call it "English"'.

EDIT: Which, incidentally, is quite similar to what I've heard about English cooking. Take the ingredients, put them all into the pot, boil until it's all fallen to bits or been liquefied, then call it "food".
Meh, just all the ones derived from the theoretical Indo-European root language, to be fair, I mean we haven't borrowed much from Chinese for example!
Incidentally I once heard that the reason we don't give things genders in English goes back to when the Vikings controlled the north of England and Saxons controlled the south and they developed a pidgin language to communicate so, yeah, I blame the Danes!
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Ciris: You seem to have forgotten the "proceed to give it an absolutely ridiculous name" step :D
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TwoHandedSword: Well, that may be because all the "good" food names have already been taken... by towns and villages. ;)
my girlfriend was at uni near Ham, we walked there to go to an Indian restaurant one evening, there weren't any pork products on the menu though...
Post edited January 14, 2015 by Fever_Discordia
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