URL:
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Summary: african.ruleset has nation plural "African"
Project: Freeciv
Submitted by: jtn
Submitted on: Sun 05 Jun 2016 02:51:52 PM BST
Category: rulesets
Severity: 2 - Minor
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
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I'd have thought it should be "Africans".
As well as sounding like colonial-era synecdoche
<http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/282308/what-do-you-call-the-collective-singular-as-a-rhetorical-device-e-g-the-hun>:
* "The African stole Theology from you!"
it leads to actually broken sentences:
* "The African have stolen Theology from the Ozites."
Been that way since the nation was added (patch #2783).
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