Topic: English translation thread
GunChleoc
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Posted at: 2015-08-02, 13:07
I have another bunch of fixes that need review. There is a bit of scary C++ in there, but not too much - the important thing in this review is that someone will look over the strings themselves. Busy indexing nil values 
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GunChleoc
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Posted at: 2015-10-30, 15:08
It would be great if somebody could proofread these help texts. Just click on "expand all" to view all of them and ignore the bit of code that goes with them. Busy indexing nil values
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GunChleoc
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Posted at: 2015-11-06, 20:17
I need some native speaker intuition - seems like we sometimes treat "blackroot" as countable and sometimes as uncountable. Which would be more natural? Some examples of what we have right now:
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radick334
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Posted at: 2016-10-09, 21:25
Since corn and wheat are uncountable, I think blackroot should also be uncountable. (I'm an American, and English is my first language.)
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GunChleoc
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Posted at: 2016-10-10, 08:17
Thanks, I'll look into changing that. I would leave it as countable in "Blackroots are a special kind of root" though - I'm thinking of "carrots" as an analogy here. Busy indexing nil values
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radick334
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Posted at: 2016-11-12, 16:57
IMHO, I'd go with uncountable in your example, as well: "Blackroot is a special kind of root."
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GunChleoc
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Posted at: 2016-11-12, 18:29
Thanks - will fix this for Build 20 Busy indexing nil values
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DragonAtma
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Posted at: 2016-11-12, 20:20
I would go with keeping blackroots countable for the simple reason that not only is the word "root" countable, but so are its derivatives (beetroot, taproot, etc.)
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GunChleoc
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Posted at: 2016-11-12, 21:01
The branch isn't merged yet, so we can still change stuff around without messing up translations. Busy indexing nil values
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