Daggerfall Proofreading Project, Part 1: String Files (Take Two)

[Mentill]

This contains ~200 corrections to spelling & grammar errors/typos to the string files (excluding internal_locations.csv), all done by hand.

The Internal_Locations.csv file was copied to the Text folder so it can override the misspelled names normally loaded directly from MAPS.BSA. I didn't go through all ~15k entries, but rather a representative sample since they're procedurally-generated.

Some changes were made to improve consistency. In particular:

• the one message that refers to the Cart was changed to Wagon, to be consistent with every other message; the item name was left alone

• the Pickpocket skill was renamed to Pickpocketing to match the strings, and for consistency with Backstabbing and Lockpicking

• references to Critical Striking were changed to Critical Strike, as that's the skill's current name, which I feel sounds better despite being less-consistent with the other skill names

I wasn't sure how to edit the images in INVE00I0.IMG & INVE01I0.IMG, which contain the rendered 'Wagon' buttons for the inventory screen, or if it were allowable to include modified versions in DFU's loose texture folder. Otherwise, I would've changed every 'Wagon' reference to 'Cart', including that button. I left the Transport menu's 'Cart' button graphic unmodified for the same reason.

It was recommended that I split my project into parts submitted one at a time, so this first part is just the string files. Next will be the quests, of which I corrected typos in ~170 of them; if that's too many, I can split that, too.
I had improved the formatting of the books, but it seems another PR did a better job on that; I didn't proofread many of those, though.
Hopefully I did this all correctly this time, the file diffs all look good to me...

strings notes.txt

[petchema]

I suspect diminutization was the intended word; Either way, that spell was not implemented so that text is currently unused
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diminutize#English

[petchema]

English is not my native language, but I haven't seen a dash used in that context before or by looking around

[Mentill]

I perhaps use more hyphens than most writers, but I think it's justified in this case to show the two words are connected, so as to intuitively clarify that it shouldn't be misinterpreted as 'a greater number of civilized areas.' I dislike ambiguous syntax even if it's considered technically-correct English.

[petchema]

That's a non-question, so I wouldn't use a question mark here

[Mentill]

I did some research on this during editing, and it turns out English linguists haven't reached consensus on whether or not rhetorical questions should end with a question mark; one major school says 'yes', another says 'no.' I think they look better with question marks so I added them in cases where it looked 'right' to me.
I attempted to avoid adding question marks to indirect questions, however.

[petchema]

That file doesn't exist under this path on master branch, it can only be found under Assets/StreamingAssets/Text/Master Localization CSV Files

The Internal_Locations.csv file was copied to the Text folder so it can override the misspelled names normally loaded directly from MAPS.BSA.

I see... Well, is everyone okay with merging that change, @KABoissonneault, @ajrb,... ?

[petchema]

I finished my first read of the patch, and it's obvious you spent a lot of time on those fixes, well done!

[Mentill]

I finished my first read of the patch, and it's obvious you spent a lot of time on those fixes, well done!

Thanks! When I did a second pass through the main quests I found a few typos I'd missed the first time, so I probably only found 95% of the issues. I found a bunch of words that seemed wrong but upon research turned out to be nonstandard or archaic forms. I also left the underworld speech and sesquipedalian loquaciousness alone unless there was an obviously-unintended typo. Many of the 'issues' that remain are borderline cases, aesthetic preference, or unusual phrasing that's just not wrong/problematic enough to justify changing the style.