Bless their spelling of Colour Gun

[DoubleG]

Most game developers don't bother to include English spelling on their games. The number of times I've railed against putting on my "armor" or some-such. Bless these guys for putting the correct spelling in the game and making sure younger players know how to spell properly.

If there's anyone with an american version of this game, do they spell it the US way in your region version?

[Shitler]

Who TF cares about a missing u? Certainly not most people playing this game

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

There is only one version of the game. They do not maintain different versions for different regions or languages. The wording is the same for those of us playing the game in the USA as it is for you.

[OBXandos]

Originally posted by DoubleG:

Bless these guys for putting the correct spelling in the game and making sure younger players know how to spell properly.

Got a good laugh out of that. In America that is the incorrect spelling of the word, so they are actually teaching children incorrectly.

Luckily most people are smart enough to figure out what the word means with either spelling.

[Dakota Whitemane]

Originally posted by OBXandos:

Originally posted by DoubleG:

Bless these guys for putting the correct spelling in the game and making sure younger players know how to spell properly.

Got a good laugh out of that. In America that is the incorrect spelling of the word, so they are actually teaching children incorrectly.

Luckily most people are smart enough to figure out what the word means with either spelling.

Hee, funny considering we got the spelling from England in the first place. American style of spelling has it's roots in a British style that predates America. What got locked in just came down to who made the first Dictionaries. It could have very easily ending up the other way around instead.

[Player 1]

I am OCD on spelling, I do appreciate the eastern spelling on some things, like flavor vs. flavour. ect. The flaire of it appeals to me. Probably just me. lol. but Americans used to acknowledge the eastern spelling. It's kinda archaic now tho. I , for one . have no problems with understanding the differential in dialect, I kinda study it in an of-hand way, the use of certain spelling (considering the literate and not the illiterate.) offers a good study.

[curtyuiop]

Fix it.

[Jembawls]

Default language is US English, but British English is also an option.

[N0ma13]

Originally posted by Dakota Whitemane:

Originally posted by OBXandos:

Got a good laugh out of that. In America that is the incorrect spelling of the word, so they are actually teaching children incorrectly.

Luckily most people are smart enough to figure out what the word means with either spelling.

Hee, funny considering we got the spelling from England in the first place. American style of spelling has it's roots in a British style that predates America. What got locked in just came down to who made the first Dictionaries. It could have very easily ending up the other way around instead.

Considering all languages got their roots from the Phoenecian alphabet and not a single word is spelled the same, I find this argument silly. We barely even hold similarities with Latin anymore.
American English and British English are different languages so claiming that one is 'wrong' over the other is kinda off.

[Huillam]

Originally posted by N0ma13:

Considering all languages got their roots from the Phoenecian alphabet and not a single word is spelled the same, I find this argument silly. We barely even hold similarities with Latin anymore.

Er... nope. First was the language, much later came writing and finally various alphabet systems were created (but not every language uses one).

[DoubleG]

Originally posted by Jembawls:

Default language is US English, but British English is also an option.

Interesting. My version was bought on steam in the UK, and the default seems to be British English Spelling. I'm just glad that some developers make the effort to use the correct spelling in this country, rather than just using US spelling and saving themselves a tiny amount of work. Shows dedication and I appreciate.


Wasn't aware it was referred to as Eastern spelling by some people in the US, interesting.

British English was built up over a long time, stealing words and spelling for these words from a lot of other languages (French, German, Gaelic, Nordic etc). When the US was given independence they made a concerted effort to simplify the language and establish some more uniform rules (mostly just cutting the french style spelling and adding a bunch of zzzz everywhere in place of s)

Most languages established their spoken version first, then most utilised an already established alphabet to write down the sounds. If you want to know about how spoken languages are transferred into written languages there are still some languages that have only recently been developed into written ones. There's a whole documentary about sounds that can be produced by humans and how they are represented in various formats, including written.

Thanks for your input all. :)

[N0ma13]

Originally posted by Huillam:

Originally posted by N0ma13:

Considering all languages got their roots from the Phoenecian alphabet and not a single word is spelled the same, I find this argument silly. We barely even hold similarities with Latin anymore.

Er... nope. First was the language, much later came writing and finally various alphabet systems were created (but not every language uses one).

And all of our current languages have been traced back to the phoenician alphabet. If it was based on previous languages without written record, we'll literally never know.

[Truckin' Tom]

I think developers should have American settings for games sold in America. I could give a damn where our language originated. That mattered a few hundred years ago. Now, not so much.

[Mod Sloth]

Originally posted by Truckin' Tom:

I think developers should have American settings for games sold in America. I could give a damn where our language originated. That mattered a few hundred years ago. Now, not so much.

Translation: Talk 'Murican or git out!

[Lil Puppy]

They're both spelled correctly in the U.S., we don't have a problem using other languages spellings since we adopt every culture and if they have a word that we don't, we adopt it as well. I bet you Brits have a real problem eating Tacos and Burritos huh? Those aren't English...

Additionally, the word Colour isn't even ENGLISH... it's Old French, and the word the U.S. uses, Color, is the Latin spelling.

Middle English: from Old French colour (noun), colourer (verb), from Latin color (noun), colorare (verb).

[Player 1]

I love this dialect debate, I am gaining wisdom here :).