Spelling Conventions
This page provides information regarding spelling and spelling conventions on Rukinations.
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General Grammar
Rukinations is written in standard American English. Rukinations is written by an American writer taught to write using American English conventions. This impacts both spelling differences (i.e. color as opposed to colour, percent as opposed to per cent) and grammatical differences (i.e. collective nouns and subject-verb agreement).
Language
As noted earlier, Rukinations is written in English. However, occasionally, words and phrases may be written in other languages (most likely Japanesee) on a case-by-case basis.
Regarding words, names, or titles in Japanese, words will be written in the relevant kana with roumanji notes written above. For example, quoting Coto Academy, the four seasons would be written as:
| Kana | Winter | Spring | Summer | Fall |
| Kanji | 冬 | 春 | 夏 | 秋 |
| Hiragana | ふゆ | はる | なつ | あき |
| Katakana | フユ | ハル | ナツ | アキ |
(Note: In this case, you wouldn't likely use katakana to describe the seasons; this was just an example to model the furigana written above [and the <ruby> implementation in HTML])
Quoting Sources
Quotes from external sources, such as referencing in-game notes, manuals, or code, will be copies as written in-source. Anything that would be written differently than American English will be kept in the original form as best as possible without changing grammar or spelling. Occasionally, quotes will be adjusted to include words to clarify meaning that are lost when taken from the original context; these additional or adjusted words will be written inside [brackets] while remaining inside the quote. Notes regarding spelling will remain consistent with the original quote with a note tagged [sic] beside them.
Short quotes lasting fewer than four lines on desktop will be written traditionally within the same paragraph. Longer quotes will be written in block quotes as so:
The plan with Clefable was to immediately bolt towards either the left or right (whichever was least likely to knock Xerneas out) and activate a Geomancy as fast as possible. Ten percent of the time, the beautiful Quick Claw would instantly trigger the move and let Xerneas instantly attack. 90% of the time, Xerneas had enough bulk to probably survive whatever attack that Pokémon used before activating those stat increases. Then, nine times out of ten, Xerneas got an easy three knock-outs right to start.
Reference: Pokémon Legends Z-A: Season 02 Breakdown & Review
Contextual Notes
Games and media often create words that follow spelling and grammar rules that are different than American English rules. When applicable, Rukinations uses the spelling and conventions as used in the original source. For example,
Pokémon
Pokémon names written in English will be written exactly as posted in the Pokédex. Most of the time, this is limited to only capitalizing the first letter (i.e. "Torpius" with a capital T instead of "tropius").
Likewise, Pokémon names written in a different language, most likely in Japanese, will follow the same formatting. Notes will be included somewhere nearby explaining which Pokémon is being referred to (either with an English translation written or a picture nearby). See Language Notes above for more information.