Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
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In terms of having to quickly identify which word is written, I think it's actually more fair (and possibly even a deliberate choice) to use English terms that have a similar proportion of identical letters.
That argument only works for the English localization, though.
German and French just use the standard nautical terms that are in use nowadays, as far as I can tell. The odd one out is English using an antiquated word instead of port.