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[srmalloy]

38 minutes ago, wijnen said:

In the introduction of a villain alignment mission, it says:

"another think coming" should be "another thing coming".

While that is currently the more popular usage, "another think coming" is the original form of the phrase, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The phrase originated in British English in the mid-1800s, coming from a comic expression, "if that's what you think, you've got another think coming".

[Pengy]

53 minutes ago, wijnen said:

In the introduction of a villain alignment mission, it says:

"another think coming" should be "another thing coming".

No, it's correct as written (for colloquial values of "correct"). Another "thing" wouldn't make any sense.

 

Never mind, slow.

Edited August 5, 2021 by Pengy
Slow

[wijnen]

4 hours ago, srmalloy said:

While that is currently the more popular usage, "another think coming" is the original form of the phrase, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The phrase originated in British English in the mid-1800s, coming from a comic expression, "if that's what you think, you've got another think coming".

 

Huh, interesting. Learned something new today. Thanks. 🙂

[ZorkNemesis]

Not a typo, but more out of place dialogue.  In the Independence Port Safeguard mission, I overheard some Family thugs asking why Tub Ci was making them stand watch.  Why would the Family be answering to Tub Ci of the Tsoo?  All the rest of the Family chatter made more sense, so this appears to be an isolated mistake.

 

That said, the Underboss with the Weapons Deal key has some interesting commentary about his position?  What does "under" mean?

 

Edited August 7, 2021 by ZorkNemesis

[Gigajoule]

2 minutes ago, ZorkNemesis said:

Not a typo, but more out of place dialogue.  In the Independence Port Safeguard mission, I overheard some Family thugs asking why Tub Ci was making them stand watch.  Why would the Family be answering to Tub Ci of the Tsoo?  All the rest of the Family chatter made more sense, so this appears to be an isolated mistake.

 

 

I assume that dialog was copy-and-pasted from the Tsoo version.

 

And, there is a typo there also! Should be heroes, not Heros.

[ZorkNemesis]

Another one from the Brickstown Safeguard.  Nemesis troops are looking for Shock Treatment, but the PPD who they're interrogating refers to Shock Treatment with the wrong pronouns.  Shock Treatment is a woman.  The rest of his dialogue correctly uses "her" after being rescued.

 

[Gigajoule]

More fun with its/it's....

 

In Television's one-off mission "Help Television" (the one where you are replacing a Fortunata with a double), near the end of the debriefing, it says, "Television is always there for it's friends."

 

Should be its friends.

 

In the mission briefing for Television's one-off mission "Help Television learn about the Malta Group," the second sentence references a show that "was really big in it's time."

 

Should be its time.

 

EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot to mention... the paragraphs definitely should be fixed on these as well. There should either be a blank line between paragraphs, or if that's not possible for some reason, the paragraphs should be indented. The massive wall of text that's there now does not look good.

 

Edited August 8, 2021 by Gigajoule

[ZorkNemesis]

The Indestructible PvP Accolade power tooltip mentions +DEF and +RES to "All but Psionics", however the power has a small amount of Psi DEF and RES, which appears to be what Elusive Mind provides (I trust Indestructible simply combines the two effects of Elusive Mind and Archmage/Demonic).  I assume this is just the result of a quick oversight from copying the tooltip from Archmage/Demonic, which don't have Psi protections.

[wijnen]

Seer Marino says:

The sentence is a bit weird anyway, but it would at least be grammatically correct if "it's" is changed to "its". But even then, I would expect the body to be the evidence that betrays us, not the body's evidence. So it may be better to rewrite the sentence. Then again, I'm not a native speaker, so this may be perfectly good English.

[Aeroprism]

 

Thier = Their.

[Gadfly]

This is such an entrenched issue that it will likely never be fixed, but is there any good reason judgment is consistently misspelled, especially with regard to incarnate-related content?

[PeregrineFalcon]

34 minutes ago, Gadfly said:

This is such an entrenched issue that it will likely never be fixed, but is there any good reason judgment is consistently misspelled, especially with regard to incarnate-related content?

It's not misspelled.

 

Judgement is Queen's English and judgment is American English.

[Darmian]

3 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

It's not misspelled.

 

Judgement is Queen's English and judgment is American English.

Just fine-tuning this 🙂

 

BOTH are UK English. However "judgment" refers only to the legal pronouncements of an actual judge. Judgment is the only version used normally in the US.  Working as an editor IRL and having spent a lot of time on legal texts in the last decade this has become almost a twitch reaction!

Edited August 19, 2021 by Darmian

[PeregrineFalcon]

2 hours ago, Darmian said:

Judgment is the only version used normally in the US.

Right.

 

And since CoH was developed in America, by Americans, it's not a typo.

[Darmian]

5 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

Right.

 

And since CoH was developed in America, by Americans, it's not a typo.

You are indeed correct!  Like I said, fine-tuning a little 😄

[Magairlín]

Starting Doc Buzzsaw's arc puts some yellow text in your chat window: This is a list of all the specific parts and where they are located..

 

There's an extra period at the end.

[Gadfly]

22 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

It's not misspelled.

 

Judgement is Queen's English and judgment is American English.

 

  

19 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

Right.

 

And since CoH was developed in America, by Americans, it's not a typo.

 

 

I guess you had trouble parsing what I said.  I emphasized the correct spelling in my original post, and I stand by what should be obvious: the word is consistently misspelled throughout the game; to wit:

 

Edited August 19, 2021 by Gadfly
edited for clarity

[PeregrineFalcon]

4 hours ago, Gadfly said:

I guess you had trouble parsing what I said.

You are correct, sir. I did, in fact, misunderstand which form of the word that you were referring to. My mistake.

 

The version used in that screenshot is a misspelling.

[CursedSorcerer]

From the mission "Defeat all Hellions in hideout" in Mr. Bocor's story arc "The Book and the Burning":

 

 [NPC] Pledged of Steel: We can expect no mercy form a monster like that!

 

It should be:

 

 [NPC] Pledged of Steel: We can expect no mercy from a monster like that!

[Magairlín]

From the (Blueside?) Patrol mission infobox in Bloody Bay:

 

Be warned! While fighting for the Shiva Strike, the Shivans, you'll find the other side may try to stop you -- heroes and villains can battle each other, in addition to the Shivans and other foes. Should you defeat a foe you or a teammate be take any ore or sample he's collected. If you defeat a foe, you or a teammate should be sure to be take any ore or sample they've collected.

[srmalloy]

Random mob dialog in Kings Row:

 

[NPC] Gravedigger Assailant: That sweet sterio is as good as mine.

 

Should be 'stereo'.

[Aurora_Girl]

From Blind Makwa in First Ward:

 

 

Should be "between *an* Apparition and *its* possessed"

 

Probably already mentioned, but figured I'd pop it in.

[Aurora_Girl]

And another one, on the Cerulean arc:

 

 

Option two has an extra "means."

[Kai Moon]

There's a slash command to autocomplete a mission in Architect Test Mode.

 

/architect_completemisison

 

Note misspelling "misison".

 

The command should be /architect_completemission.

[wijnen]

In a rogue->hero tip mission, it says:

That last part should be "posing AS you ON the internet".