Talk:Strike Witches

Translation issues

Foreign words

Proper nouns/ranks in other languages will be used where appropriate when characters would logically be speaking in their own language. This mainly goes for character speech, but I'll probably change things and just give a translation if it gets needlessly awkward. I will keep ranks in their respective languages until the entire squadron meets up and starts speaking in Britannian.

In the prologue, appropriate terms for the various forces have been used for diversity, but starting from Chapter 1, I'll be using translated terms. Afterwards, everyone starts speaking Britannian, making the issue moot.

Characters

Character info
Book	Character	Affiliation	Rank	Abbr	Equiv.Rank (Britannian Air Force)	Abbr (Brit.)	Notes
	Häkkinen	Suomen Ilmavoimat	Kapteeni	Kapt.	Flight Lieutenant	F/L	Later promoted to Squadron Leader
	Ahonen, Mika	Suomen Ilmavoimat	Kapteeni	Kapt.
	Leivonen, Elma	Suomen Ilmavoimat	Luutnantti	Ltn.	Flying Officer	F/O
	Anabuki, Tomoko	Fuso Imperial Army Air Service	Shou-i	---	Pilot Officer	P/O	Later promoted to Flying Officer
	Beurling, Elizabeth F.	Britannian Air Force	Pilot Officer	P/O
	O'Hare, Katharine	US Naval Aviation	Ensign	Ens.
	Hartmann, Ursula	Karlsländer Luftwaffe	Feldwebel	---	Flight Sergeant	F/S
	Sakomizu, Haruka	Fuso Imperial Navy	Ittou Hikou Heisou	Ichi-hisou
1	BAF Commandant	Britannian Air Force	Group Captain	G/C	Group Captain	G/C
	USN Captain	US Navy	Captain	Capt.
	USN ACO	US Naval Aviation	Commander	Cdr.	Wing Commander	W/C
	Washizumi	Fuso Imperial Army Air Service	Chuu-sa	---
	Sakuma	Fuso Imperial Army	Chuu-sa	---
	Katoh, Takeko	Fuso Imperial Army Air Service	Shou-i	---	Pilot Officer	P/O
2	Itokawa, Mamoru	Nakajima Striker Company	Gishi	---	Engineer	---
	Rudel, Hanna	Karlsländer Luftwaffe Schlachtgeschwader 2, 10 Staffel	Hauptmann	--	Flight Lieutenant	F/L
3	Cenni, Giuseppina	Fourth Joint Air Force No.2 Group	Maresciallo	---	Warrant Officer	WO	AKA "The Non-Commissioned General"

Countries

Countries
Country	Full name	Adjective	Language	Nationality
Suomus		Suomish	Suomish	Suomish
Fuso	Fuso Empire	Fuso	Fusogo	Fusojin
Karlsland		Karlsländer	Karlslaendisch	Karlsländer
Britannia	Marine State Britannia	Britannian	Britannian	Britannian
Liberion	United States of Liberion	Liberian	Britannian	Liberian
Romagna				Romagnan
Hispania
Gallia		Gallic	Gael	Gallian
Orussia
Venezia
Ostmark
Baltland
Neuroi

Formatting

Punctuation

I will be using British styles for dealing with punctuation and quotation marks. This means that the position of commas and periods will follow logic, and not always end up inside quotation marks. Other than this, I'll be using American English for spelling.

Speech quotation marks will use a double quotation mark "...".

Preferred order for ! and ? is '!?'.