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Don't your remember the time when games actually taught you stuff???
Are you really having problem with simple words anyone should know??
Are you asking the devs to change a word because you had to google it?
Are you serious? :)
As for "anyone should know". I've played games for more than 25 years in English (I've probably played thousands). I speak English every day with friends from other countries, and I use the language every day as part of my work (although as I said, I'm not a native speaker, and I do not live in a country where English is the primary langauge). And I have never in my life heard of this word. And heck, I've played dozens of hospital sims as well. This does not mean the word does not exist or that it isn't accurate. But the claim that it's a common word (possibly outside of living in a native country, if terms like convalescent leave are common there) is just patently false.
I'm 33, I've learnt English through videogames, I'm a french native and I never left France.
But you're mostly Right... I might be biased, as "Convalescence" is French :
- Borrowed from Middle French convalescence, from Late Latin convalēscentia (“regaining of health”), from Latin convalēscēn(t-)s, present participle of convalēscere (“to become strong or well”); see convalesce.
No wonder I have no problems with that particular word.
That might be true. I also looked it up in the British National Corpus, and the word has an extremely low frequency (19). Compare it to a normal word like "sick", which has 4266, or an extremely common word like "man", which has 58168. If we look for similar words, "recuperate" has 43 (so used more than twice as often), and "recover" has 1954 (so waaay more common).
My age is 31, I just started playing games and reading books outside of my native language quite early.
Here are the facts for use of the words in literature, according to Google's Ngram Viewer:
https://books.google.com/ngrams
"Recovery" = 0.002%
"Recuperate" = 0.00006%
"Convalesce" = 0.00000008%
While it's used correctly, the data shows it is not commonly used.
English has more than a million total words, about 170,000 words are in current use, and individuals use about 20,000-30,000 words. I guarantee I can find words that even the most well educated among you would need to look up.
But the point of language is communication, if the majority of people don't understand the words you are using, even though used correctly, it does not facilitate communication.
The word was used in pre-industrial times to talk about recovering from an illness or surgery, the game is set in pre-industrial times; it is literally doing exactly what the word says it's doing. Ergo the word is perfectly fine staying in and maybe people should just learn to start using a dictionary again. That or just use some common sense. I mean, if you can't tell what a word means when you see someone doing the action of what that word means then maybe the word isn't the issue. Sounds harsh, but the truth tends to be.
The game is called "Going Medieval" not "Going Pre-industrial times"
The word Convalesce is from the Late 15th century:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/convalesce
The Medieval period is from the 5th century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th century.
The word "recover" is from the 13th century:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/recover
So if the argument is that it should be accurate to the time period, then recover is the more accurate word.
1. The word Convalesce's roots come from the Latin words com- ("with, together, jointly") and the verb "valescere" ("to grow strong"). Recovery has no Latin roots, in fact it's a late Middle English word with it's roots in Anglo-Norman French from the word "recovrer" ("get back"). So the word Convalesce predates Recovery by a few centuries.
2. The 15th century is the 1400's. The game is set in the mid 14th century (check the game date in the top corner. You start in 1352). So it is indeed pre-industrial. Anything BEFORE industrial would be considered pre-industrial. Hell the classical era is pre-industrial because the word pre literally means BEFORE.
3. According to Websters dictionary, the word Recovery wasn't used till the 15th century. Also, since Convalesce has it's roots in Latin, that'd mean that those who were educated back then (monks and royalty) would've used the Latin word. And since monks were usually the healers (surgeons and herbalists weren't always readily available, but monasteries where everywhere in Europe), that'd mean the most commonly used word would be the Latin word.
So yes, my argument was 100% time accurate. Try again
I did, look above.
That's a farce argument. Localizations is completely different.
You're arguing for arguments sake. Localizations is nowhere near the same thing as what's being discussed. So either come up with a valid argument, or go back to the kids table.