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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #30 on: September 13, 2012, 11:19:27 AM »


Flak Canon: I'm very insecure about correct English comma placement, but I think in the second paragraph it should be: The rising prominence of small, cheap fighter craft, especially in the strike roll, has led to...
Is that an added comma? That sounds right.
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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #31 on: September 13, 2012, 02:29:58 PM »

....I think in the second paragraph it should be: The rising prominence of small, cheap fighter craft, especially in the strike roll, has led to....
Strike role?

Typos within typos....
Typception O.o

No, that is correct, that paragraph is about breakfast trends for bad-ass-captains ;)
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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #32 on: September 13, 2012, 04:11:02 PM »

....I think in the second paragraph it should be: The rising prominence of small, cheap fighter craft, especially in the strike roll, has led to....
Strike role?

Typos within typos....
Typception O.o


No, that is correct, that paragraph is about breakfast trends for bad-ass-captains ;)
That..made sense. I half-laughed okay? It was only half!!
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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #33 on: September 16, 2012, 11:22:44 PM »

Annihilator: Fires a spread of unguided rockets that covers a wide area. Or "which cover", whatever you like. Otherwise it's not clear if the spread is, or if the rockets are covering the area. Or is this correct in English?
Frag bomb bay has the same problem: a cluster of bomblets that retain...
actually it depends if you consider it a collective noun or not and that might be a problem...
but since we have an article in front of each one the collective seems to be more probable and that would imply cover and retain without the S at the end
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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #34 on: September 16, 2012, 11:55:05 PM »

Annihilator: Fires a spread of unguided rockets that covers a wide area. Or "which cover", whatever you like. Otherwise it's not clear if the spread is, or if the rockets are covering the area. Or is this correct in English?
Frag bomb bay has the same problem: a cluster of bomblets that retain...
actually it depends if you consider it a collective noun or not and that might be a problem...
but since we have an article in front of each one the collective seems to be more probable and that would imply cover and retain without the S at the end


To figure out whether "cover" should have an 's' at the end, you have to ask what is doing the covering. The answer is "a spread of unguided rockets," and not "unguided rockets." "A spread (of unguided rockets)" is singular, so you conjugate "to cover" for the third-person, singular, present tense. This comes out as "covers."
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« Reply #35 on: September 17, 2012, 02:12:11 AM »

To figure out whether "cover" should have an 's' at the end, you have to ask what is doing the covering. The answer is "a spread of unguided rockets," and not "unguided rockets." "A spread (of unguided rockets)" is singular, so you conjugate "to cover" for the third-person, singular, present tense. This comes out as "covers."
not necessarily
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/collectivenoun.htm
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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #36 on: November 05, 2012, 10:40:00 AM »

in the mule description, second part, first line, there is a "m" missing is says fro instead of froM
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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #37 on: November 05, 2012, 11:27:03 AM »

Thanks - that one's not actually a typo, though :)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/to_and_fro
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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #38 on: November 06, 2012, 05:06:02 AM »

it seems they didnt teach us everything in english class.  ;)
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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #39 on: November 10, 2012, 08:11:38 AM »

Not a typo, but the nav buoy effect message is a bit too long:



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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #40 on: November 10, 2012, 12:15:57 PM »

Thanks, noted that down.
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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #41 on: November 23, 2012, 04:40:00 PM »

In the skill description for Gunnery Implants: "Entropic", not "Entopic"
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« Reply #42 on: November 23, 2012, 05:04:02 PM »

Entoptic, actually :)
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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #43 on: November 23, 2012, 05:47:28 PM »

I am shown my place!  ;D

Your word actually fits, too!
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Re: The Typo Thread
« Reply #44 on: November 26, 2012, 11:56:45 AM »

I'm not sure if this belongs here, but it's a tiny enough bug I don't think it needs its own thread:

In the Character screen, if you try to advance a skill when you have no more skill points, the "Aptitude Level Reached" tag flashes, even when that's not the case.

Also, when you don't have any points in a skill, all the 'function text' underneath is de-emphasized, which makes it rather difficult to read what the skill would do if you put a point into it. There should likely be some other text or subset of text that is readable nonetheless.
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