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« on: May 09, 2007, 05:40:29 pm »

One thing I've noticed is that there are occasional phrasing/spelling problems that, if remedied, would add a little polish to this great game.  I'd be happy to use this thread to post issues that I find, if there are no objections.

For example, in the Donation Items Museum, there are signs that say:

They can there buyed. - an ego item is bound to a single player and can't be stolen, get or applied by other players.

I'd rephrase this to:

They can be purchased there - an item is bound to a single player, and cannot be stolen, picked up or applied by other players.

Make sense?

Well there is no donation item museum in B4 -- Smacky
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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2007, 06:12:04 pm »

hehe Yes. In real we has a bit of a problemed English-writing...

I'm taking the piss ((expects a visit to loms*) Yup, you're right. Post issues to this thread and they'll be corrected for B4.
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2007, 06:21:54 pm »

I was going to offer to fix all of those a while ago, i suppose i could now if i had access to the full range of maps...
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« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2007, 07:03:29 pm »

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I want to sit in a bath tube at night, wheres the fun in a bath tub????
Can't we at least keep that one typo, its been here longer than trepie Cheesy
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« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2007, 07:45:38 pm »

From a non-public board on 2007-01-31:
Quote from: "me"

hehe The bath tubes are still named 'bath tube'. Part of me wants to leave it that way because it kind of defines Daimonin, but I really think they should be corrected.

Maybe I'll petition the OED. If I can get them to change their spelling we can keep bath tube. Cheesy
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« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2007, 08:34:18 pm »

When I egobound some items i bought on the b4 test server I got the following message:
you has bound the...
should be:
you have bound
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The Item (RoST for example) is bound to you...

Fixed in SVN -- I'd prefer to go with 'The item is now bound to you' but the problem here is Daimonin does not know about plural/singular so can't decide when to use is and when to use are. We'd end up with (in the case of ego pants for example) 'The pants is now bound to you,' which isn't really an improvement). Mind you, Daimonin doesn't do proper nouns either, so the hardwired 'the' will not always be appropriate -- Smacky
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« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2007, 02:09:49 am »

Just copying a couple over from another post


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« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2007, 03:17:22 am »

@ Angry: i can't find them :/

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« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2007, 03:28:26 am »

Fixed.
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