Spelling & Grammar
This page provides information regarding spelling, grammar, and technical conventions on Rukinations.
This page provides information regarding spelling, grammar, and technical conventions on Rukinations.
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).
When applicable, grammatical rules of sources will take presidence over American English (such as in names or text translated from a different language by a source referenced).
As noted earlier, Rukinations is written in English. However, original words, words from printed sources, and words from other languages will take precedent over traditional spelling.
Words written in Japanese will be taken as they are written in the referenced source. For example, talking about a character named "Bakugo" may be written in rōmanji ("Bakugo") or in its applicable kana (「爆豪」). For the writing above the kana, rōmanji will be used in place of traditional furigana to help readers who do not know how to read Japanese characters (this also applies to hiragana and katakana using rōmanji 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 |
| Roumanji or Rōmanji | fuyu | haru | natsu | aki |
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[sic] is used to denote text is copied exactly as it is found in its initial source. This often is used to denote typos that are not being made my the writer of the post you're actually reading, but this is also used sometimes to denote grammatical quirks in texts.
For example, the Resident Evil games will type the "t-Virus" differently; the official stylization guide has a lowercase t and capital V, but the "Tyrant" that the "t" stands for is always capitalized, future viruses such as the G-Virus have a capital letter, and the printed materials (such as the novelizations and comics) use different combinations of lowercase/capital "t" and lowercase/capital "v".
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, about 5% of the space away from the left of the paragraph:
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
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A portmanteau of "blog" and "article." Used when I'm not sure which of the two fits better.
A portmanteau of "Ruki" and "rumination."