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Can someone explain to me why the Wiki insists on British English when the game uses American?
Like I said, why does the official Wiki insist on using words like color and haemorage or however you spell it in Latin?
Why not use the actual game text of the perks?
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Could be that BHVR are a Canadian company, who'd use the British English spellings (I think exclusively? They at least put the u in colour) and therefore the official wiki follows suit, but the in-game text changes to fit the US version if you're from the US?
Just spitballing, I don't know if that is the case.
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Sadly the game industry standard tends to be the inferior filthy colonial version of English... but outside of the game we use proper English 😏😏😏😏
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Well, what does the game use in the UK version of the game? What does it use in the Canadian version of the game? Actually had a Canadian friend tell me that they spell some words the British way and some words the American way.
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I should downvote you, sir!
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The game actually uses Canadian English, Because Canadian Representation is really what it's all aboot!
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^🐽^ 👉🐽
In seriousness, I imagine it's just blunders. As someone who works developing global software tools, it's a common problem in Britain (and Canada I assume) where we have to file bugs for not using American English in documentation or external APIs 😁
Of course some of us stubbornly hide English-English comments in the code when no one is looking or when naming internal variables 😏
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Maybe the wiki owner is british
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The spelling of Hemorrhage (sorry not sorry) there is really confusing.
Haemorrhage? I'm sorry, but it doesn't look right.
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I've always thought this lmfao
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Yea, it's based on the Latin, which even most of Britain doesn't even use anymore, so that's what's even more confusing.
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The 'ae' sound, which used to be the single æ character, is an /ɛ/ sound, pronounced like 'eh'. The spelling does make sense, even if it is a touch archaic.
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Afaik, the wiki admins are all European. It's more common to learn BE spelling in schools there.
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Is the difference even that big in the context of a wiki?
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I can't even get the forums to stop displaying menu options in french....
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Every time I get a notification from you replying to a post it's in French too LOL
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This COULD be the cause...
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Was worth a try lol
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