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- From: lauusitalo@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Language (was: re: f15III released in...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.215544.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 19:55:44 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.064307.25205@netcom.com> <1992Dec20.150939.1381@polaris.utu.fi>
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- In article <1992Dec20.150939.1381@polaris.utu.fi>, jarlehto@polaris.utu.fi (Jari Lehtonen) writes:
- > Hoi Chong (hchong@netcom.com) wrote:
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- stuff removed
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- > : Do Finish speak English, or Finish? If Finish, does the game come in
- > : Finish, or English (as in the US version)? If in Finish wonder if they
- > : do it for the French, German, etc.
-
- Native language is none of these. It is _Finnish_. And games are normally
- European or International versions. At least games that have different
- versions.
-
- Let Jari continue...
- >
- > We (here in Finland) usually get our games in English, _never_ in Finnish.
- > That is because there are only about five million Finnish speaking people in
- > the world, so it is not very productive for a software developer to translate
- > games into Finnish. Some games have manuals in Finnish.
- >
- > Apparently MicroProse will do it in French and German. At least in F1GP one
- > has to select the language of the manual before copy protection asks stupid
- > questions. Languages from which to choose are English, French and German.
- >
- > Merry Christmas!
- >
- > ---
- > Jari Lehtonen, Student of Computer Science, University Of Turku, Finland.
- > jarlehto@cc.utu.fi
-
- Merry Christmas to you both and everybody else too!
-
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- lauri.uusitalo@ntc.nokia.com I then you die..."
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