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    Quote Originally Posted by TeraRamis View Post
    But what period? And accurate in what way? This isn't old English we're speaking. If that were true, the first thing that would need to change is that all our 's' letters would need to be altered to 'f' - that's something that only really happened at the beginning of the 19th Century.

    You realize "all right" -> "alright" was around the end of the 19th century, right? Not the 17th, as per Milton. Nor the early 19th.

    And even then, I'm sure there are some obvious technical reasons there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
    You realize "all right" -> "alright" was around the end of the 19th century, right? Not the 17th, as per Milton. Nor the early 19th.

    And even then, I'm sure there are some obvious technical reasons there.
    You realize that a) there are literally thousands of word changes over that same time span that this game does not use, b) Eorzea is not Earth, and - most crucially - that c) in your anal desire to score points, you're completely overlooking my primary argument: that as there is no phonetic difference between 'alright' and 'all right,' there is no benefit to employing such dated text when the words actually being spoken by the characters sound no different as a result.

    This isn't some situation where you've got a drawf speaking broken, highland tongue, 'an' yeh need all tha muffed up word play that ye've got tah convey jus' how strong ah' brogue tha lad 'as' - it's drama club nonsense that seeks to (and fails) to set a mood in the most impractical manner possible. Because, again, alright and all right sound the same.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TeraRamis View Post
    You realize that a) there are literally thousands of word changes over that same time span that this game does not use, b) Eorzea is not Earth, and - most crucially - that c) in your anal desire to score points, you're completely overlooking my primary argument: that as there is no phonetic difference between 'alright' and 'all right,' there is no benefit to employing such dated text when the words actually being spoken by the characters sound no different as a result.
    You gave a specific example by which to imply uneven or clumsy process on the part of the game's English localization. Your specific example happened to be a bad example. That is all. Hell, I gave the benefit of the doubt that you were referring to the medial s as "f" just for its approximate shape.


    Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
    Damn Anglos failing to say the French, "Carabine."
    ...Now I want to see how an Ishgardian pronounces it, since it's the miniature France in an otherwise Medieval England.
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    Last edited by Shurrikhan; 08-04-2021 at 06:12 PM.