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Posting this brief guideline here, since it was a suggestion over a Steam message to myself. | Posting this brief guideline here, since it was a suggestion over a Steam message to myself. | ||
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In the definition files, the game uses keywords like HECAP and HIS to insert a pawn's pronouns into a backstory description. Some official language translations, like French, use conditional statements like {PAWN_gender ? he : she} to select pronouns for text. | In the definition files, the game uses keywords like HECAP and HIS to insert a pawn's pronouns into a backstory description. Some official language translations, like French, use conditional statements like {PAWN_gender ? he : she} to select pronouns for text. | ||
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A typical backstory might read like this: | A typical backstory might read like this: | ||
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HECAP found himself stranded on a rimworld with nothing except for HIS dog. | HECAP found himself stranded on a rimworld with nothing except for HIS dog. | ||
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Anyway, for wiki readability it's nice to translate these programmer keywords to regular words. | Anyway, for wiki readability it's nice to translate these programmer keywords to regular words. | ||
Instead of deciding all the the backstories should be male pronouns, female pronouns, 50-50, or at random; gender neutral pronouns should be used. | Instead of deciding all the the backstories should be male pronouns, female pronouns, 50-50, or at random; gender neutral pronouns should be used. | ||
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HECAP -> They | HECAP -> They | ||
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HISCAP -> Their | HISCAP -> Their | ||
HIS -> their | HIS -> their | ||
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Some additional discretion needs to be used for some statements like 'he is', because 'they is' isn't grammatically correct. | Some additional discretion needs to be used for some statements like 'he is', because 'they is' isn't grammatically correct. | ||
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HE was -> they were | HE was -> they were | ||
HE is -> they are | HE is -> they are | ||