[Freeciv-Dev] Re: L10n: get_nation_name - /only/ used as an attribute?

[Ed Hunter <ed.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sini Ruohomaa wrote:

> Adjectives are a bit icky at times. There's languages where the two
> 'Scottish' in "The Scottish ruler" and in "The Scottish ship" might look
> different (war of the sexes again - if the ship were a 'he' and the ruler
> a 'it', the language might use words like Fot and Fon to mean "Scottish"
> in front of the two different words; so if their nouns happened to look
> like English, the two would be translated to "Fot ruler" and "Fon ship").

It's Czech, for example :)

Czech ruler - Cesky vladce (he, when male) - but it should be better 
translated as Vladce cechu :)
and

Czech ship - Ceska lod (she)

and

Czech musketeers - Cesti musketyri

etc.


Jarda Benkovsky