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RE: Which do you prefer?
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:55 pm
by KG Erwin
ORIGINAL: Goblin
ORIGINAL: Major Destruction
I prefer English designations for generic units. Therefore Rifle Squad or Rifle Section is a generic name that describes the unit adequately.
Marine Squad, Sissi Squad, Alpini Squad, Gurkha Squad are all adaptations that fit this same idea but add a National uniqueness to the unit.
To me, Spaeher Unit does not add to the game. They are scouts plain and simple and that should be enough. If you want to translate the name 'scout' into German, then please do it for the scouts in every other Nation- Italian, Romanian, Chinese etc.
Well said Major!
Goblin
Just one question: who would want to name a unit a "Sissi squad"? That sounds like one of M4 Jess' classic put-downs: "Let's get moving, you damn Sissies". [:D]
RE: Which do you prefer?
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:01 pm
by DuckofTindalos
Tell that to those zany Finns![;)]
RE: Which do you prefer?
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:31 pm
by KG Erwin
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Tell that to those zany Finns![;)]
That was a bad joke on my part. Having played against the Finns, they are no "sissies". [X(]
RE: Which do you prefer?
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:31 pm
by Alby
Hmmm, Now I am leaning toward going back to the generic names.....
RE: Which do you prefer?
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:44 pm
by KG Erwin
ORIGINAL: Alby
Hmmm, Now I am leaning toward going back to the generic names.....
Maybe you should do that, Alby. After all, those of us who are accustomed to using the OOB editor can tweak them in any fashion we want.
For a public-distribution mod, though, you always have to consider new players -- the game is complicated enough as it is, so requiring a knowledge of foreign terminology might be asking too much.