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Style: Change esthetic -> aesthetic #93977
Style: Change esthetic -> aesthetic #93977
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This is not correct, esthetic is the US English spelling, aesthetic is generally the UK one, and we use the US spelling when it differs
Happy to change it to the It also seems pretty rare to find anything written about video games, art, or design that doesn't use the Even as a US-born, native English speaker, I had to Google "estethic" based on your response and this English StackExchange answer has some interesting deep dives into this: https://english.stackexchange.com/q/173585 I just noticed it spelled differently in two places while looking at some in-editor tooltips. Edit to Add: Just as a note, the Godot Docs only use the |
I'd say to leave it be, it's a minor difference either way |
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We can keep this for discussion, I don't think this change is worth it as it's a different (yet standard) spelling more US specific which fits our guidelines, though I don't think we should change aesthetic
to esthetic
either
If you still want this change please fix the translation files, they should not be manually edited, and after that I'll remove the changes requested and we'll have this as up for discussion
See https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aesthetic (comment: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/aesthetic-esthetic.1502784/#post-7604976). |
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I removed the changes to the translation files. Sorry for the confusion on that. If this is too minor a change, feel free to close it - I know it's not actually that important. I just noticed discrepancies in how the word was spelled between the official docs and then in a few places in the in-editor tooltips and wanted to make it consistent - and |
There's actually a pretty fair debate on how people expect this word to be spelled as, so keep this PR open. At most it will just not ever be merged. It's not as clear-cut case of "esthetic is the |
It's anecdotal, but as a non native speaker "aesthetic" is a lot more natural to me. codespell had the replacement in their en_GB to en_US dictionary for a bit, but removed it as it was indeed pointed out that aesthetic is valid in en_US. I think we can just pick one and keep it consistent, I don't think this would rub people off the wrong way. Since aesthetic is ok in en_US, I'd say let's be nice to en_GB and international speakers by picking the "ae" variant. |
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Non-native speaker and it's my own preference too.
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Don't have a preference either way but this standardized things
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non-native here too, I didn't know "esthetic" existed and meant "aesthetic", I'm familiar with the latter
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I'm from the US, native English speaker, and I've always seen "aesthetic", never any other version. The existence of "esthetic" is brand new information to me. I say let's go with the correct and standard "aesthetic".
As a non native speaker, I've only ever heard of aesthetic, and at first esthetic seemed to me like a typo |
Thanks! And congrats for your first merged Godot contribution 🎉 |
This PR ensures consistent spelling for
aesthetic
across the in-editor docs (and also a few in-code comments where it is written), preferring the more widely-used "ae" spelling.