Re: Now in German | NetHack auf deutsch

On 2008-01-28, Boudewijn Waijers wrote:
Martin Read wrote:
"Tony Crawford" <tc13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It does. You're right. Same for all the non-animal "corpses". One can
only conclude that they've been left that way in a humorous vein.

I would tend to choose "laziness and notational convenience" as the
most likely explanation. The notation keeps it perfectly clear that
this is a foodstuff comprising the unprocessed mortal remains of a
former opponent, ally, or bystander of a certain sort, rather than of
some more wholesome manner of victuals, and it means less code to
write.

One could, of course, have used "remains" in English, and the
appropriate translantion of that in German.

Sounds lots more elegant. Pluralization would be just a little bit more
complicated (as in "non-standard"), though. "The remains of two lichens
/ Die Überreste zweier Flechten" as opposed to "Two lichen corpses /
Zwei Flechtenleichen".

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