Biter Memoirs

by exfret

Adds names to nearby biters and sometimes prints bits about their life to chat when they die.

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a month ago
1.1 - 2.0
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g Locale

4 months ago

Hello exfret
I think this mod is a great idea. It's time to have compassion for biters ;-)
I would like to work on a French translation of this mod.

Unfortunately, I'm stuck with some French grammatical rules that differ from English which make the pronoun system used here not work.
In French, the form of adjectives differs according to the gender of the subject. Possessive pronouns don't accord with the subject, but with the noun of what is possessed.
And unfortunately, the system for plurals has no equivalent for genders.

bev

4 months ago

I could make a startup setting that makes everything gender neutral, or if you have an idea for making the code more language independent, you can submit a PR to the repo. I would love to have your contribution, so if there's an easy way I can help it to work, then let me know!

4 months ago

It would be a pity to remove the gender of biters, it's important to give them a "personality".
I don't think it's possible to find a system that's compatible with all languages.
The easiest way would be to triple each sentence: one version for a male biter, another for a female biter and a third one for a "neutral" biter.
Eg with sentence 8:
8m=He will be remembered for his long career in nest creep management.
8f=She will be remembered for her long career in nest creep management.
8n=They will be remembered for their long career in nest creep management.

4 months ago

I could probably do that.

a month ago

It's been a while since you talked, but it was brought up to me recently so I went ahead and made a PR to implement that
https://github.com/exfret/exfret_biter_memoirs/pull/8

I want to be clear, if you leave out any gendered key, it should fallback to the ungendered one. This way you can leave out duplicates.
We have them listed in the English version because I plan to get exfret to use Crowdin and I don't think it understands the idea of optional keys (especially since its source of truth is the English locale files).

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