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Egallager: /* UTF-8 */ wikify

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‎UTF-8: wikify

Wedge009: /* Usages to Avoid */

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‎Usages to Avoid

Wedge009: /* Usages to Avoid */

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‎Usages to Avoid

Wedge009: /* Usages to Avoid */ Acceptable, though some caution against its use.

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‎Usages to Avoid: Acceptable, though some caution against its use.

Wedge009: /* Not Broken, Don't Fix It */

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‎Not Broken, Don't Fix It

Wedge009: /* Not Broken, Don't Fix It */ Not to be confused with South American.

2021-11-19T14:05:12Z

‎Not Broken, Don't Fix It: Not to be confused with South American.

Trewe at 21:40, 20 January 2013

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Esr: /* Usages to Avoid */

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‎Usages to Avoid

Esr: /* Not Broken, Don't Fix It */

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‎Not Broken, Don't Fix It

Esr: staffs -> staves

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 This replaces the current uses of - ' and -- in dialogue, most of which have already been cleared out. If you see characters such as "'''... the land&acirc;&euro;&trade;s very heart...'''" instead of "'''... the land&#x2019;s very heart...'''" (the exact triplet shown may vary depending on your operating system), your system/editor/viewer/whatever is not displaying UTF-8 characters correctly.
-We are also adopting the use of Pango-style markup, allowing us to mark up text with colours, bold, italics and large or small text.
+We are also adopting the use of [[Pango formatting|Pango-style markup]], allowing us to mark up text with colours, bold, italics and large or small text.
 [[Category:Writing]]

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 * '''alright''' &ndash; Technically, 'alright' ''is'' acceptable; it's a back formation, derived in the same way as 'already', and it can be traced back for decades. But it looks very modern. As we usually want a more archaic tone for Wesnoth, please use '''all right''' as two words instead.  Consider using "Very well."
-* '''anymore''' &ndash; No, this ''is'' wrong. '''any more''' should be two words.
+* '''anymore''' &ndash; No, this ''is'' wrong. '''any more''' should be two words. [Appears acceptable as one word in current US English...]
 * '<b>being through with</b>' &ndash; Constructs such as 'I am through dealing with these people' are also modern. Use sparingly.

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 * '''guys''' &ndash; Very modern usage. Please avoid.
-* '''malus''' &ndash; The opposite of bonus. Unfortunately, while it's a convenient coinage this word is not yet widely accepted. It appears in the Urban Dictionary, but no other online authorities list it yet. A better opposite for 'bonus' is ''penalty''.
+* '''malus''' &ndash; The opposite of bonus. Unfortunately, while it's a convenient coinage this word is not yet widely accepted. It appears in the Urban Dictionary, but no other online authorities list it yet. A better opposite for 'bonus' is ''penalty''. [Disputed: malus is Latin for 'bad', although penalty is probably a better word to use in most situations.]
 * '''nevermind''' &ndash; Two words, please.

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 * '''alot''' &ndash; 'a lot' should be two words, unless you intended to write 'allot', meaning 'allocate'.
-* '''alright''' &ndash; Technically, 'alright' ''is'' correct; it's a back formation, derived in the same way as 'already', and it can be traced back for decades. But it looks very modern. As we usually want a more archaic tone for Wesnoth, please use '''all right''' as two words instead.  Consider using "Very well."
+* '''alright''' &ndash; Technically, 'alright' ''is'' acceptable; it's a back formation, derived in the same way as 'already', and it can be traced back for decades. But it looks very modern. As we usually want a more archaic tone for Wesnoth, please use '''all right''' as two words instead.  Consider using "Very well."
 * '''anymore''' &ndash; No, this ''is'' wrong. '''any more''' should be two words.

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 In ''Son Of The Black Eye'', "whupping" is a Southern US rural dialect word - a rather rough and rude one - that means "a severe beating", either as verb or noun. It is an appropriate word for Orcs to use.
-In ''Liberty'' and ''Two Brothers'' we make an exception to the normal rule of using American spellings in preference to British in the base text.  Thus, "Grey Woods" rather than "Gray woods". We do this because to anyone who notices the difference, "Grey" will probably sound slightly archaic.
+In ''Liberty'' and ''Two Brothers'' we make an exception to the normal rule of using American spellings in preference to British in the base text.  Thus, "Grey Woods" rather than "Gray woods". We do this because to anyone who notices the difference, "Grey" will probably appear slightly archaic.
 In ''Sceptre of Fire'' we make another exception: "scepter" is spelled British fashion, for the same reason.
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 In the Dwarvish unit descriptions and elsewhere, the correct plural of "staff" is not "staffs" but "staves".  Thus "one Dragonguard's staff" but "the staves of the Dragonguards".  Compare "hoof" vs. "hooves" and "dwarf" vs. "dwarves".
-Remember that we capitalize the name of a race when (and only when) referring to the entire race.  Thus: "the lore of the Elves", but "a band of elves".
+Remember that we capitalize the name of a race when (and only when) referring to the entire race.  Thus: "the lore of the Elves", but "a band of elves". [November 2021 Update: Candidate for removal? Appears to contradict Usage Notes in https://wiki.wesnoth.org/ProseStyle]
 ==Usages to Avoid==

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 In ''Son Of The Black Eye'', the phrasing "the River Bork" is correct.  Modern English usage would favor "the Bork River", but "the River Bork" is historically common and still used in fantasy literature.
-In ''Son Of The Black Eye'', "whupping" is a Southern American rural dialect word - a rather rough and rude one - that means "a severe beating", either as verb or noun. It is an appropriate word for Orcs to use.
+In ''Son Of The Black Eye'', "whupping" is a Southern US rural dialect word - a rather rough and rude one - that means "a severe beating", either as verb or noun. It is an appropriate word for Orcs to use.
 In ''Liberty'' and ''Two Brothers'' we make an exception to the normal rule of using American spellings in preference to British in the base text.  Thus, "Grey Woods" rather than "Gray woods". We do this because to anyone who notices the difference, "Grey" will probably sound slightly archaic.

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	We are also adopting the use of Pango-style markup, allowing us to mark up text with colours, bold, italics and large or small text.		We are also adopting the use of Pango-style markup, allowing us to mark up text with colours, bold, italics and large or small text.
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 == Not Broken, Don't Fix It ==
 In ''An Orcish Incursion'' and elsewhere, "march" is ''not'' a typo for "marsh"; also, in ''Liberty'', "marchlander" is not a typo for "marshlander".  "The marches" is archaic English for the border country of a kingdom.  The word was originally Norse "mark" and is related to the ordinary English word "mark"; it also appears as an element in the place name "the Estmark Hills" which is "the hills of the eastern border".
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 In ''Heir To The Throne'', the word "thutter" is not a misspelling of "thunder". It is a rare and specialized word describing a fast series of striking or slapping sounds, found mainly in SF novels and possibly invented by the writer Poul Anderson. In modern English one might speak, for example, of the thutter of helicopter blades.
-In the Dwarvish unit descriptions, the correct plural of "staff" is not "staffs" but "staves".
+In the Dwarvish unit descriptions and elsewhere, the correct plural of "staff" is not "staffs" but "staves".  Thus "one Dragonguard's staff" but "the staves of the Dragonguards".  Compare "hoof" vs. "hooves" and "dwarf" vs. "dwarves".
 Remember that we capitalize the name of a race when (and only when) referring to the entire race.  Thus: "the lore of the Elves", but "a band of elves".