[MC-2453] Jack-o-lantern name is mispunctuated Created: 07/Nov/12  Updated: 21/Jun/13  Resolved: 20/Jun/13

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.4.2, Minecraft 1.4.7, Snapshot 13w05b, Minecraft 1.5
Fix Version/s: Snapshot 13w26a

Type: Bug
Reporter: David Harmon Assignee: [Mojang] Grum (Erik Broes)
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 4
Labels: None
Environment:

PC version at least


Issue Links:
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relates to MC-1352 crowdin.net: Entry entity.WitherBoss.... Resolved
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Confirmation Status: Confirmed

 Description   

The pumpkin-derived lantern is "Jack 'o' Lantern" in game. That shouldn't be a quoted "o", it's the Irish patronymic prefix, or alternately an elision for "of the". Any of the following versions would be reasonable:
Jack O'Lantern
Jack o'lantern

jack o'lantern (that is, capitalized only when any word would be, and only the J)
jack-o-lantern (for those too poor to afford apostrophes )
jack-o'-lantern (Wikipedia uses this one)



 Comments   
Comment by David Harmon [ 20/Jun/13 ]

Yay! Thank you!

Comment by [Mojang] Grum (Erik Broes) [ 20/Jun/13 ]

Fixed.

Comment by David Harmon [ 10/Nov/12 ]

Agreed. US English does not have a translation project, it is the original game language. Accordingly, this needs to be handled as a game bug.

Comment by Simons Mith [ 08/Nov/12 ]

Mustek is wrong, Do is right. US English is the master language - hence the use of 'Cookie', 'Armor' etc. as the primary text labels for these items.

Comment by Do [ 08/Nov/12 ]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think en_US is the original language, and as such the en_US language strings can't be altered via crowdin. At least, I can't find a way to do it, so I'm reopening this. Again, someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Comment by Mustek [ 08/Nov/12 ]

Minecraft uses en_GB as default.

Comment by Thue [ 08/Nov/12 ]

But there is no en_US translation subproject at crowdin.net. Despite what you say.

So it is not a translation issue which can be fixed there. Hence this bug should be reopened.

Comment by Talven81 [ 08/Nov/12 ]

I agree it does need to be corrected. However "translations" include all language presented to the end-user, whether it be English, pirate, or Swahili. Which means Chalmes is correct.

How to approach translation issues are being discussed by the mods and Mojang, but for the moment it does not belong here.

Comment by Cloudy (Aaron Mills) [ 08/Nov/12 ]

This is a translation issue. Go to the crowdin translation project for things like that (even en_US is a language file!).

Comment by Thue [ 08/Nov/12 ]

But this is not a translation issue. This bug should be reopened, IMO.

Comment by Chalmes (Jon) [ 07/Nov/12 ]

Translations can be voted at http://goo.gl/Kx6Om

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