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Captain of Phoenix Rising
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 07:12
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Please remove extraneous apostrophe from "FAQ's"
Please remove extraneous apostrophe from "FAQ's"
IAWTP, let's get the little details right from the start.
I don't want to see strike force dialog about viscous enemies year after year.
Sailboat: remove the apostrophe from the [b]Frequently Asked Questions[/b] (note lack of said apostrophe) title or the Grammar 5th Columnists will use you in a story arc!
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I'm usually not too annoyed when a game has 1, 5 or even a few dozen spelling/grammar errors. But as much as I loved CoH it was vaguely irksome how the Devs allowed literally hundreds of typos to linger across the game for years.
I'm hoping the Devs of CoT will be able to spend a few hours throwing the game's text through a modern spell/grammar checker before launch. That should be able to catch roughly 90% of the silly mistakes automagically.
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I agree, and it seemed to get worse with each release. Towards the end I tried to turn it into a mini-game with every new issue, attempting to get through any single arc without encountering an error. It wasn't really an enjoyable game, though -- and, sadly, I never succeeded. To me, the worst were where they made vocabulary errors solely because their reach exceeded their grasp of English -- the sort where you go, "Huh? ... Ohhhhh.... I see you [I]meant[/I] to say..."
Spurn all ye kindle.
You're right. It should be: FAQs'
After all, Isn't this the Frequently Answered Questions' forum?
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There's a mission in CO where you fight this named NPC whose name I forget.
Let's say it's El Gergrio
The random mobs say in speech bubbles
"We would die for El Geregrio"
If you can't even get the name of your own boss right, you do deserve to be kicked until you give me XP.
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I recommend consulting [url=http://angryflower.com/]Bob[/url] for apostrophe advice ^_^.
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Sometimes the rules of English are just silly. One way to change is to ignore them, if everyone, and I mean everyone, agreed that whom wasn't necessary or any more clear then who, the rule would be changed, and whom would be as archaic as doth.
I feel that singular acronyms should pluralize with an apostrophe and an s: this separates them from normally plural acronyms (e.g. USA, USSR) and allows a convention of capitalizing only beginnings of words on acronyms.
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I disagree, it is much better without apostrophe, and it would make the accursed ambiguity of the English language - it is a plural, not a genetive! It is al'so rather unplea'sing ae'sthetically to have the'se apo'strophe's without a purpo'se, and leave's an unprofe's's'ional impre's's'ion.
Even worse considering that your apostrophe is much to infective already, with German increasingly corrupted by the "Deppenapostroph"* in genetive's... or plural's... or in 's'ome ca's'e's' even where it i's ju's't part of the word ("Apre's Ski")!
*"Idiot Apostrophe". In German, an apostrophe is only appropriate for contractions and genetives [i]of words ending in s[/i] (or similar sound). In the latter case, this is because in this case, you do not use a genetive suffix (e.g. Xerxes')
So freed of the rant:
While there are changes that I would like to perform upon the English "orthography", they go in the opposed direction.
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To each his own, though I do see the point of having apostrophes for contractions and genitives (I assume this to be the technical term for "possessive"). For the cases such as "Xerxes'" (notice the apostrophe becomes fused with the quotation), "Jesus'", or "Thomas's" I'm also in the apostrophe s camp: although JEEZ-us-es and tom-AS-es are mouthfuls, the conflict between ' or 's should be decided one way or the other, and I think ALL ENGLISH POSSESSIVES (or genitives) should end in 's when singular, 100% of the time, no exceptions.
This is partially because I don't really find apostrophes very inaesthetic.
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Proofreading really should be a serious consideration, and should be easily delegable to volunteers who have the appropriate skills or inclination. I have a BA in English, but my wife, whose degree is in Biology, is MUCH better at proofreading than I am just by her detailed nature.
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