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To: Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>
Cc: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: "Americans" versus "United States"
From: Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:06:53 -0700

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:55:40AM +0200, Thue wrote:
> I noticed that the US was called "americans" in the rulesets. Is that not 
> somewhat inprecise, considering there are many americans who are not from the 
> United States?
> 
> Instead of 
> 
> name=_("American")
> plural=_("?plural:Americans")
> 
> should it not be
> 
> name=_("United States")
> plural=_("?plural:United States'")
> 
> ?

Probably a carry over from the US centric Civ and CivII.

/me grumbles something about arrogant americans from .us

-- 
Paul Zastoupil



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