Spelling Errours
I haven't completed the Bogey Man yet, but I can tell the orthography is mostly Webster's American and not The Queen's British. This is a problem.
Here are some examples:
Here are some examples:
- A street sign saying "Town Center" instead of "Town Centre"
- Miss Prudence Flitt saying "Organizations" instead of "Organisations"
- Miss Prudence Flitt saying "Squalor" instead of "Squalour"
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That was the point. I was making a joke with by spelling "error" as "errour." I was mocking the way the British spell things (colo(u)r, flavo(u)r, etc.).
I can't say I even noticed until reading this thread.
I'm more concerned with them spelling words correctly for ANY English dialect, since they always seem to have like 50 spelling errors in the subtitles.
Also, not really a spelling error as such, but the chemists had a sign saying "DRUGS" in the window. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I've never seen any chemists selling "drugs", as the word has a bit of a nasty connotation here.
It's usually medication or prescriptives.
Personally, although I'm British, and I spell using the british spellings, I've gotten so used to seeing American spellings in games that I've become immune to it, so I don't really notice it. Usually only scan read subtitles anyway too, so I don't pick up the spellings. I can see why some people might get annoyed with it though, considering it's set in Britain.
That said we are more coy about drugs than in the States. The "ask your doctor for..." adverts would be illegal over here, but virtually everyone knows medications are normally drugs.
Personally, I think the games do feel quite British and these are relatively small niggles.
*facepalm*
You're really dense, are you? I know there's no "u" in "error." It's just that considering that the Brits spell words like "color" and "flavor" with a "u" (i.e. "colour" and "flavour"), I was applying the same "Britishness" to "error" by adding a U to it, AS A JOKE! The rest of the posters here can understand that. Why can't you? :mad:
(By the way, is squalor really ever spelled with a u? Even Cambridge's online dictionary lists only squalor so I would say this is really the only correct form!)
Well you shouldn't because I find that offensive.
We should demand our language back from America. Just look at what they've done to it!
Believe me, if you grew up with the American spelling, the British one would be the version that looks "off". Now honestly I don't care either way, as I've had a lot of Brtish media come my way. However, I live in and am immersed in the culture of the United States. More appropriately, I've been immersed in the local cultures of various east coast US states in my lifetime. "Color" and "Sulfur" are the only ones that look "correct", even though I know that "colour" and "sulphur" are used and accepted by another culture that uses the same language.
How about they're allowed to keep the language if they give us back New England, Virginia, Maryland and Georgia and promise not to invade Canada or Grenada again?
Granted you gain a pretty good airport and some delicious peaches, but it's just not enough.
Seriously, why worry about details at this level in games which are as well constructed as this.
The US never invaded Canada. If you're talking about the War of 1812, that doesn't count, since it was British colonial territory then. Ever since Canada was actually founded (that is, drafted its own constitution), the US has respected Canadian sovereignty.
Not true. These people come from Georgia: Little Richard, R.E.M., The Chapman Bros., The Allman Bros., Outkast...
Don't be so picky. You know what I mean. That's like saying the US has never been at war with Mexico because the 1846-1848 war was before their 1917 constitution.
The name "Canada" referring to the bit of North America above the USA excluding Alaska long predates the modern Canadian constitution. Plus, Canada can't really be classified as having being "founded" in that conventional sense, it evolved from the British colony into the modern sovereign state through a whole course of constitutional developments, acts and treaties that go from 1763 to 1982.
criticise...
you seem to be proud that you criticise them.
My point was, we were at war with Britain, who had territory in Canada at the time, and it was British North America at that time with which the US was at war and not any sovereign nation called Canada.
For Mexico's example, we were at war with Mexico, who was a sovereign nation at the time. It wasn't "Spanish North America" or "New Spain" or "The Spanish colony of Mexico." So your example falls flat.
Also offended by that quite a bit.
Granted, they would also gain the Brothers Chaps and all the H*R universe. Pretty strange that you would think that that would "more or less halv[e] your nation's cultural net worth," considering your username and icon and all.
When we say Americans don't get irony and you people insist that you do, I get a nice warm feeling and a wry grin when I see reactions like this. Sorry, but you walked right into that one.
Ahem, see my previous point... honestly, I've got nothing against cultural variations, as for instance I've known very witty and madcap Germans which totally belies my country's own stereotype. I can therefore take that comment in the (wow) ironic tone I will assume it was presented in.
It's "have," not "of," don't show us up.
Grammar police - out.
Though, really, I reckon if I've enough time to care, I've got waay too much unused time
For my money, TellTale have done a fantastic job including regional (North England) colloquialisms. Definitly one of the best licensed games I've ever played.