[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [FreeCiv-Cvs] pjkersten: Cleaned up nl.po, spelling corrections, r...

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, sigra@xxxxxxx wrote:

> m? ndagen den 26 februari 2001 16:31 skrev
> freeciv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>> This is an automated notification of a change to freeciv cvs,
>> on Mon Feb 26 07:21:22 PST 2001 = Mon Feb 26 15:21:22 2001 (GMT)
>> by Pieter J. Kersten <kersten@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---- Files affected:
>>
>> freeciv/po nl.po
>>
>> ---- Log message:
>>
>> Cleaned up nl.po, spelling corrections, renamed A.Smiths Trading
>> Co. to V.O.C., which was a very dominant force in Dutch economics
>> during 15th-18th century.
> 
> I never thought of localizing the wonders. Maybe I should call it
> The Hansa instead.

You mean the Hanseatic League.  (In Norwegian the Hoover dam is
Altavassdraget...)

> The Hansa is far more known here around the Baltic Sea than A.
> Smiths Trading Co.

There was never any such thing as the AS Trading Company; this was
merely the civ2 designers' way of tying the name of a famous economist
to some sort of physical structure, much like Isaac Newton's College,
which is just plain stupid.  I never did like these names very much.

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