Is this Eorzean typo ever getting fixed?

http://imgur.com/ijlsQOD

I noticed this immediately. The writing clearly doesn't read "knowledge seeks no man." I don't know if seikis means "seeks" in another language, but it was really weird.

I don't know if this was intentional or not? Dev response maybe?

If you spell the first word doesn't it come to knawleghe ?
I like to think the language is spelled closer to the phonetics of the accent they might have used <- not based on any facts, just my imagination.

That's probably true since I get the impression that Eorzea doesnt have a 100% literacy rate.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

That's probably true since I get the impression that Eorzea doesnt have a 100% literacy rate.

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Which makes more ridiculous since this is the motto of a country of scholars and having a misspelling like that is all the more glaring. I'm betting that Seikis is a word in an Eorzean language (Like what is used for Roegadyn names) or that someone hired an outsider to do that monument

Knauleche is apparently an archaic and obsolete spelling of Knowledge, so I would assume that Seikis is the same for Seeks.

Also notable is that one side says "no man" and the other says "no wimman"

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Originally Posted by Morningstar1337

Which makes more ridiculous since this is the motto of a country of scholars and having a misspelling like that is all the more glaring.

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New Lore Bomb; Sharlayan is a country of dyslexics!

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Originally Posted by Annana

Knauleche is apparently an archaic and obsolete spelling of Knowledge, so I would assume that Seikis is the same for Seeks.

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You know what's weird? I now can't help but see the word "share" in Sharlayan (Shar[e]-layan[d]?), which makes some of their national polices fairly ironic... Likewise, Idyllshire has always struck me as Idle-Shire, which is fitting given the players use for the area...

Mottos in English-speaking countries often draw from Latin renderings (my school, for example, used a Latin phrase which was easily understood by those who didn't speak Latin even though the spelling was different). Isn't it likely that this is the same kind of thing, and the text is based on some older saying which Y'shtola converted to modern Eorzean for the benefit of her travelling companions?

Idyll is already an English word so I don't think the 'Idleshire' thing is anything other than a player joke.

Google has a scanned book called The historie of Scotland, Volume 2, that includes seik, meaning 'seek', and seikis is a form of that.

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Originally Posted by gornotck

Google has a scanned book called The historie of Scotland, Volume 2, that includes seik, meaning 'seek', and seikis is a form of that.

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Suddenly those bagpipe like sounds I keep hearing in Idylshire's music make more sense

Braveheart incomming

I've read this article a while ago. It's about the hunt bills, but in the last paragraph, there are some explanations about Eorzean writing and literacy, and that there are basically no fixed spelling rules in Eorzea. Maybe that's the case here, too, at least in part?

Eorzean might not even have standardized spellings, which was the case for the English language until about the 18th century. So before that people just spelled words however they felt like.

People are putting up a lot of good replies, but from my knowledge I do not think that there's any word in the game that's spelled in Eorzean that wasn't one-for-one with the english word. If there's another instance then please let me know.

Long ago there were two guys compiling words for an early dictionary they argued over the spelling of a lot of English words. The most common was how to spell and pronounce "is". One said it was "iz" and the other said "is". I forget how they came to an agreement but part of the idea was to provide uniformity and defined meaning to the written language in the early days of print. Especially if the word originated from a foreign dialect. It could just be an obsolete form of that word or based on a particular dialect. Like trying to spell a word in pig latin. without knowing how its actually spelt/said in pig latin.