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[CursedSorcerer]

Just encountered:

"Vic is good people,"

Should be Vic is a good person.

Are people turning Russian?

Edited March 7, 2021 by CursedSorcerer

[Mr. Vee]

55 minutes ago, CursedSorcerer said:

Just encountered:

"Vic is good people,"

Should be Vic is a good person.

Are people turning Russian?

That's a pretty common colloquialism.

[Shenanigunner]

 

Unless there's only one Sky Raider, this should be ...are...

[CursedSorcerer]

3 hours ago, Shenanigunner said:

 

Unless there's only one Sky Raider, this should be ...are...

I have never played a mission in which there was only one Sky Raider. (Or any other villain group in the game.)

[Cinnder]

5 hours ago, Shenanigunner said:

 

Unless there's only one Sky Raider, this should be ...are...

 

I believe fixing this is more than just correcting a typo, as it's an artefact of the random 'Mad-Lib' nature of radio/newspaper missions.  I suspect the mish text template is something like 'X is threatening to destroy...' Works ok when X = Malta or The Circle of Thorns, but in this case not so much.

[Cinnder]

Alignment tip mission, Defuse the Nemesis Booby Trap, mission entry pop-up text:

 

'There are a handful of Nemesis troops still inside.  It looks like a few officers have already entered the building.  You need to save then and prevent the trap from ensnaring more PPD officers.'

 

should be

 

'There is a handful of Nemesis troops still inside.  It looks like a few officers have already entered the building.  You need to save them and prevent the trap from ensnaring more PPD officers.'

 

a) A common error, but there is just one handful so the verb needs to be singular.  Verb agrees with the subject of the sentence, not the object of the preposition.

b) Probably just a typo.

 

[WillParkinson]

On 12/28/2019 at 9:24 PM, GM Widower said:

Feel free to post all the typos you find in game here. Please try to avoid duplicate reports. No, this is not serious enough to get you Bug Hunter.

Missing ‘the’.

[Cinnder]

Max, Dark Astoria, Initial Contact:

 

'Director 11 originally created our dealings with the Knives of Artemis. His knowledge of demolitions and on the foundations of the Knives of Vengeance's training grounds will prove extremely useful to the operation.  That's all of the details I know about Director 11's personality.'

 

That information had nothing to do with Director 11's personality.  Probably should be:

 

'That's all of the details I know about Director 11's history.' or 'That's all of the details I know about Director 11's activities.'

 

 

Max, Dark Astoria, Technology of the Future. mission briefing:

 

'We can get you inside of that facility, but from there it's up to you to get inside, rescue Slinger from Black Scorpion, and destroy that empowerment machine.'

 

Do we have to get inside twice? :-)  Should be

 

'We can get you to that facility, but from there it's up to you to get inside, rescue Slinger from Black Scorpion, and destroy that empowerment machine.'

Edited March 9, 2021 by Cinnder
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[Darmian]

I don't report that many, since a lot of what I see is already here, but here's one.

 

 

.

 

Per se. NOT per say.

Edited March 9, 2021 by Darmian

[CursedSorcerer]

15 hours ago, WillParkinson said:

Missing ‘the’.

I don't think this is an error. He's speaking in an Eastern European accent.

[Herotu]

Badge: The Once and Future Hero.gender

 

You know what's weird tho? It's the only badge in the list that I can see the name of, all the other badge names are dim when I highlight them and barely legible. See this example, the badge next to it...

Edited March 10, 2021 by Herotu

[Cinnder]

Number Six, Initial Contact:

 

'They had sonic fences to keep the Hamidon back, along with turret schematics stolen from Lambda sector to serve as their defense.'

 

should be

 

'They had sonic fences to keep the Hamidon back, along with turrets built from schematics stolen from Lambda sector to serve as their defense.'

 

Unless waving bits of paper in the faces of Praetorian DE keeps them at bay.  'Ha, razorvine -- this is your mama!'

 

also

 

Number Six, Part One: Defy the Odds, Briefing:

 

'There's a Seed of Hamidon making its way to way to code-name Last Bastion.'

 

should be

 

'There's a Seed of Hamidon making its way to code-name Last Bastion.'

Edited March 11, 2021 by Cinnder
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[ZekeStenzland]

Kristof Jaeger's arc, "Set bombs in Longbow base mission". When I took out the Longbow Officer at the back of the map, there was an announcement from a Longbow officer (I think it was an ambush, not the one I was attacking) that said "Longbow Agents& attack!".

 

Need to get rid of the spurious ampersand.

[Cinnder]

Pandora's Box (SSA), James Harvan, Part Three: Parental Ambiguity -

 

'All of my research indicated that whomever opens the Box is granted the power of Zeus'

 

should be

 

'All of my research indicated that whoever opens the Box is granted the power of Zeus'

[srmalloy]

3 hours ago, Cinnder said:

Pandora's Box (SSA), James Harvan, Part Three: Parental Ambiguity -

 

'All of my research indicated that whomever opens the Box is granted the power of Zeus'

 

should be

 

'All of my research indicated that whoever opens the Box is granted the power of Zeus'

No; 'whomever' is an object pronoun, while 'whoever' is a subject pronoun. Because the person opening the box is the object of the statement, 'whomever' is correct.

[Cinnder]

6 hours ago, srmalloy said:

No; 'whomever' is an object pronoun, while 'whoever' is a subject pronoun. Because the person opening the box is the object of the statement, 'whomever' is correct.

 

That's an easy mistake to make, but in this case 'whoever' is the subject of the clause 'X opens the box.'

 

The overall sentence structure is research (subject) indicated (verb) clause (direct object), but within the clause it's whoever (subject) opens (verb) box (direct object).

 

It might help to think of a similar sentence 'My research indicated that I opened the box.'  You wouldn't say 'My research indicated that me opened the box.'

[Cinnder]

Rothstein, Praetorian Tutorial:

 

'To see what badges you have, click on the word Badge located on your navigation bar.'

 

should be

 

'To see what badges you have, click on the word Badges located on your navigation bar.'

 

The menu option on the nav bar uses the plural.

 

 

Provost Marchand, Praetorian Tutorial:

 

'I'm impressed at your actions here today with the Resistance.'

 

should be

 

'I'm impressed by your actions here today with the Resistance.'

 

 

Provost Marchand, Praetorian Tutorial:

 

'You'll be able to start you career in protecting Praetoria'

 

should be

 

'You'll be able to start your career in protecting Praetoria'

 

Edited March 15, 2021 by Cinnder
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[Cinnder]

Praetor White, Part Two: In Too Deep, Officer Tepp's Story (clue):

 

'Sergeant Hastings lead the twelve of us down here looking for the Resistance.'

 

should be

 

'Sergeant Hastings led the twelve of us down here looking for the Resistance.'

[Darmian]

1 hour ago, Cinnder said:

Praetor White, Part Two: In Too Deep, Officer Tepp's Story (clue):

 

'Sergeant Hastings lead the twelve of us down here looking for the Resistance.'

 

should be

 

'Sergeant Hastings led the twelve of us down here looking for the Resistance.'

That's not a typo. Lead is spelled that way ( as well as "Led").  It's a Read/Read thing.

Edited March 15, 2021 by Darmian

[Cinnder]

6 hours ago, Darmian said:

That's not a typo. Lead is spelled that way ( as well as "Led").  It's a Read/Read thing.

 

The past tense of 'to lead' is 'led,' not 'lead.'  (https://www.grammarly.com/blog/led-lead/)

 

In the case that I'm quoting, it's the past tense they want.

[Darmian]

3 hours ago, Cinnder said:

 

The past tense of 'to lead' is 'led,' not 'lead.'  (https://www.grammarly.com/blog/led-lead/)

 

In the case that I'm quoting, it's the past tense they want.

You are absolutely right.  I was having a "senior moment" LOL.

[OVTerra]

Shadow Science Rescue Test Subjects From Council Grammatical Error

Just found an old grammatical error, I know it's old as it exists in all the archived wiki's etc. "and weakened so that Nictus can forcibly posses them long enough to recover their strength". I am fairly sure they meant possess rather than rounding up cowboys to chase them.

[Cinnder]

Dr. Hetzfeld, Part Four: One Man's Trash, briefing:

 

'make sure that the cyborgs are returned not to thier holding cells, but to mine instead!'

 

should be

 

'make sure that the cyborgs are returned not to their holding cells, but to mine instead!'

[Cinnder]

Neuron, Finale: Fight of the Century:

 

'Oh no, oh no, oh no... Character, this is bad. Very bad! Oh I just thought of twenty... no, fourty ways that this could go bad for me...'

 

should be

 

'Oh no, oh no, oh no... Character, this is bad. Very bad! Oh I just thought of twenty... no, forty ways that this could go bad for me...'

 

 

Neuron, Finale: Fight of the Century, debriefing:

 

'I know, the Resitance, yeah, they made some guy who looked like Cole to sow confusion.'

 

should be

 

'I know: the Resistance, yeah, they made some guy who looked like Cole to sow confusion.'

Edited March 18, 2021 by Cinnder
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[Cinnder]

Newspaper Mish, Sharkhead:

 

'HAVOC AT THE AEON HYRDOPONICS'

 

should be

 

'HAVOC AT THE AEON HYDROPONICS'