Game mode: - Type of issue: spelling Server type: - Region: -
What is the correct spelling in conan exiles? British or american english? This question is important to know what is wrong and worth a bug ticket. beside the general rule of spelling I saw at least the following spelling mixes:
grey vs. gray
Grey Lotus Flower (name)
Plucked from the gray lotus plant (Short Description)
name is grey and the short description is gray
this is more ore less the case for all items with the word grey in the name. they all have gray in the short description.
armor vs. armour
In item names itās always armor but in some descriptions itās armour:
from the description of the item Bone (10021):
ā¦They use the remains of their victims to craft horrifying weapons and armoursā¦
from the description of the item Khari Soldier Helm(92210):
ā¦Still, the hardened segmented armour offers excellent defense against slashing and piercing attacksā¦
Since the game is international spelling should always be in British English, as this is the language which non-English speaking countries should learn as a 2nd language. I know they have US offices, but they develop conan in Oslo? Strange seeing Simplified-English around but I suppose when youāre dealing with a US audience the āwhy the hell is there a ābā in thisā spelling sticks easily.
Doubt they have the time to ācorrectā all the spellings tbh. Would you rather have āarmourā or a nice new bug horse?
Having prior experience as a linguist, I can see why this question is raised @Testerle
Weāll send the observation to our #spellchekker team so they can decide which spelling to use between each round of whipping.
Thanks for the feedback.
-British +Australian, which is a weird stepson of British English.
In Finland they teach us both. Or at least used to teach back when I went to school.
I tend to default to British English unless I have a reason to use American English, in which case I use consistently American English. I use American on these forums because the game seemed to be written mostly in American (as were the original Conan books).
To a linguist such as myself, there is no greater crime than getting your languages mixed. As they say:
I from Japan, so mostof basic English Iāve learned was American. So Grey, Armor are often the ānormā
Iāve seen gray spelling time to time, but just put it off asā¦ not world ending.
Armour thouā¦ R Mer, or R-Moreā¦ lol
Thou, If its spelt gray or grey in Books, Iād say stick to that spelling.
If I may add to the reasons this is confusing, those of us who maintain the Wiki intend it to service all nationalities, regardless of their native language. The standard language used is English, but not specified as American or British. There is a noticeable difference in a number of words between the two.
So, imagine both searching for the term āgray lotusā. Two spellings that should lead to the same result, but how? We have three tools to help, none of which are particularly attractive.
Did you mean?: āgrey lotusā is an option towards the top
Disambiguation: The casual user has to decide
Redirect: We decide where it should lead
In most cases, like the above, we know where the user wanted to go, so we create a redirect, which has maintenance associated with it, among other problems.
That same casual user probably did not notice item 1 and ends up a bit confused.
Item 2 above does not apply in this case, but it does in others. Again, a casual user has to make a choice.
While the above are valid and useful tools, our desire is to aid that casual user, and the more experienced user, in quickly and efficiently getting to the answer that befuddled them in the first place. We would rather have them playing the game than searching the Wiki.
So if somebody has the balls to check, this might be addressed!
Ahh Iāve been seeing your posts around, didnāt know you were a wiki editor, that would explain the well manoured language!
Iām a beauro on a fairly popular wikia/fandom site, our Finnish game has a lot of spelling mistakes so we have re-directs on many pages where words are spelt wrong. For us on Fandom (not gamepedia, both use mediawiki tho) the redirects seem to be perfect as users donāt even notice theyāre being redirected. Thereās a āredirected fromā banner when this happens.
In searches; the āincorrectlyā spelled page appears a recommended in the drop down, even if the user is not spelling it the way the pagename is, the redirect will automatically show this in user searches. A very nice feature I think is also in Gamepedia?
We often got people editing the pages to ācorrectā the laguage, so a while ago we made a āsicā template which added a [sic] icon and an on-hover notice mentioning this is the preferred spelling. Now we rarely get these ācorrectionsā made.
Sorry for the off-topic, and you may already be aware of all that, but I could honestly talk mediawiki all day haha.
The backwoods nature of early America can not be conceived by the modern man.
They were more concerned with eating, and not being eaten, they learning English.
So words here learned phonically. So words took on different sounds. That phonic beginnings lead to different spelling when folks got around to forcing kids to get from behind the plow, and go to school.
