[Kde-games-devel] Need some help with proper English

[Parker Coates]

Hello Dmitry,

I'd say that "The selected piece cannot be moved to this cell" is
probably you're best bet. I think the word "piece" is pretty well
understood to mean any movable item in a board game.

While "This move cannot be performed" and "This move is illegal" are
legitimate English sentences, I would consider them inferior to the
one above as they give a lot less information. The above sentence
includes the notions of games pieces, piece selection, game cells and
piece movement, all of which would be helpful to a first time player
trying to figure out how the game works.

Parker

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Dmitry Suzdalev <dimsuzkde at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys!
>
>  I just noticed a little inconsistency in klines.
>  Before Eugene introduced new "KLines Gems" theme KLines had only
>  balls jumping and moving around :)
>
>  So when you try to perform some illegal move you see a message:
>  "Selected ball cannot be moved to this cell".
>
>  Now, If i play with Gems theme I see this message and it's obviously
>  confusing to read about balls when you see gems :D
>
>  So I need a little help on how is it best to correct it?
>  Is it good to say
>  "Selected piece cannot be moved to this cell"?
>
>  Is it ok to call "ball" a "piece" or not?
>
>  Notice that theoretically theme creators aren't limited with "balls", "gems"
>  or whatever else - they can use any entity they are enough crazy for :)
>
>  So the message needs to fit nicely for all.
>  Maybe something more simple like:
>
>  "This move cannot be performed"
>  or
>  "This move is illegal"
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>  Dmitry.
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