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The study of the German language in the United States was suppressed during World War I, but has since regained coverage by major universities, most notedly at the University of Kansas from scholars such as William Keel, the Max-Kade Institute of German-American Studies of the University of Wisconsin–Madison [35] and George J. Metcalf from ...
The game was conceptualised at Data Becker in 1998 and developed in less than 23 months. [5] In Germany, the game was released in late December 2000; [5] a release in North America followed on 15 January 2001. [1] The game was released for Microsoft Windows, specifically supporting the Windows 95, 98, 2000 and Me versions. [6]
The Japanese video game developer and publisher Square Enix (formerly two companies called Square and Enix prior to 2003) has been translating its games for North America since the late 1980s, and the PAL region and Asia since the late 1990s. It has not always released all of its games in all major regions, and continues to selectively release ...
Language shift in the 19th century in Southern Schleswig North Frisian dialects. In Southern Schleswig, an area that belonged to Denmark until the Second Schleswig War, there was a language shift from the 17th to the 20th centuries from Danish and North Frisian dialects to Low German and later High German. Historically, most of the region was ...
Since the beginning of video game history, video games have been localized. One of the first widely popular video games, Pac-Man was localized from Japanese. The original transliteration of the Japanese title would be "Puck-Man", but the decision was made to change the name when the game was imported to the United States out of fear that the word 'Puck' would be vandalized into an obscenity.
[2] [3] [4] Consumers in Germany spent €5.87 billion on video games over the course of 2021, a 3 percent year-on-year increase from 2020. [5] The video game market in Germany grew by 6 percent to €6.2 billion ($6.7 billion) in 2019. [6] The annual Gamescom in Cologne is the world's largest video game expo by number of attendees. [7]
5 languages. العربية ... Fictional American people in video games (4 C, ... Fictional German people in video games (8 P) Fictional Greek people in video games ...
The shift is used to distinguish High German from other continental West Germanic languages, namely Low Franconian (including standard Dutch) and Low German, which experienced no shift. The shift resulted in the affrication or spirantization of the West Germanic voiceless stop consonants /t/, /p/, and /k/, depending on position in a word.