The Pedant's Guide to CoV Typos!

concreteshift · 03-09-2006 02:46 PM

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Surly some of these things could be fixed with a simple run through with a spell checker.

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You should see far fewer typo's in powers with I7. Thing's like "it's" for "its" on the other hand, are still likely to crop up and be low priority fixes.

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I would suggest backhanding the content typers with a copy of Strunk and Whites The Elements of Style. It will do wonders for grammatical errors.

Sardan · 03-09-2006 02:53 PM

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Psymon Omega, or is it Psimon?

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The tech next to the CoT portal in the Northwest of the Nerva map also refers to Psymon as Psimon

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NotDoc · 03-09-2006 02:59 PM

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Surly some of these things could be fixed with a simple run through with a spell checker.

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You should see far fewer typo's in powers with I7. Thing's like "it's" for "its" on the other hand, are still likely to crop up and be low priority fixes.

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Hahaha! They finally took geko's keyboard priviledges away. Awesome.

Kamendae · 03-09-2006 03:17 PM

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Surly some of these things could be fixed with a simple run through with a spell checker.

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The irony is palpable.

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So very glad I'm not the only one thinking that....

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Heh..

Not as ironic as it looks on first glance, though, as a run through a spell-checker would not have caught 'surly'.

Kam

Retrogression · 03-09-2006 03:22 PM

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Surly some of these things could be fixed with a simple run through with a spell checker.

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You should see far fewer typo's in powers with I7. Thing's like "it's" for "its" on the other hand, are still likely to crop up and be low priority fixes.

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Man, Castle's Irony power is 6-slotted, pre-ED.

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It would've been funnier if he'd written "fix's" instead of "fixes" though

How about the indeterminate nature of the correct pronoun to use for Doc Buzzsaw or for Calystix? Is there a spellchecker for using "she" and "him" on the same NPC? Quite a few NPCs in CoV share this gender confusion...

ICF_Zombra · 03-09-2006 03:52 PM

To be fair, one could argue that "typo's" is simply a contraction of "typographical errors" ...

Dammit, I'm going off topic myself. Oh well ...

Mutant_Mike · 03-09-2006 05:26 PM

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Surly some of these things could be fixed with a simple run through with a spell checker.

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You should see far fewer typo's in powers with I7. Thing's like "it's" for "its" on the other hand, are still likely to crop up and be low priority fixes.

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Man, Castle's Irony power is 6-slotted, pre-ED.

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It would've been funnier if he'd written "fix's" instead of "fixes" though

How about the indeterminate nature of the correct pronoun to use for Doc Buzzsaw or for Calystix? Is there a spellchecker for using "she" and "him" on the same NPC? Quite a few NPCs in CoV share this gender confusion...

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It's not gender confusion, it's gender ambiguity.

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BallLightning · 03-09-2006 08:23 PM

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Surly some of these things could be fixed with a simple run through with a spell checker.

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The irony is palpable.

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Surly it could. Also it surly is irony!

QuietAmerican · 03-09-2006 09:58 PM

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Surly some of these things could be fixed with a simple run through with a spell checker.

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You should see far fewer typo's in powers with I7. Thing's like "it's" for "its" on the other hand, are still likely to crop up and be low priority fixes.

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Ah, and my teacher said English was dieing.
Its alive, it's alive and well.

Vidszhite · 03-09-2006 10:01 PM

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Surly some of these things could be fixed with a simple run through with a spell checker.

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The irony is palpable.

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So very glad I'm not the only one thinking that....

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ROFL. Way to tell em, Surly boy >.>

DKellis · 03-09-2006 10:24 PM

There's an Arachnos mission relatively early on, where the mission intro text box says something about alarms "blair"-ing.

And yes, the Merc "Saftey" thing also bugs me to no end. (Not to mention that they use far too many exclamation marks than can be considered healthy.)

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Zikar · 03-09-2006 11:14 PM

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Surly some of these things could be fixed with a simple run through with a spell checker.

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The irony is palpable.

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So very glad I'm not the only one thinking that....

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Heh..

Not as ironic as it looks on first glance, though, as a run through a spell-checker would not have caught 'surly'.

Kam

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Ah-Ha! I have been vindicated!
I must admit, my spelling does suck rather at times however Im not producing a computer game

kusanagi · 03-10-2006 02:53 AM

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They probably can. And stop calling me Shirley.

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Zikar · 03-10-2006 05:54 AM

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They probably can. And stop calling me Shirley.

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Roger

Angry_Citizen · 03-10-2006 11:23 AM

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Surly some of these things could be fixed with a simple run through with a spell checker.

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You should see far fewer typo's in powers with I7. Thing's like "it's" for "its" on the other hand, are still likely to crop up and be low priority fixes.

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Does that mean that the Invuln typo is going to be fixed?

Note that I think that Invuln is fine the way it is, and was merely kidding.

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Soltares · 03-11-2006 06:05 AM

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Diviner Maros - i before e, except after c. 3 errors in one paragraph!

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Five, actually.

Ended a sentence with a preposition he has. Yoda, he is not.

Plus, submarines don't 'know' much of anything, although they can wait for you 'now.'

Diviner Maros needs a visit from Captain Pedant and his sidekick, States-the-Obvious Lad. A few rounds of Conjunction Junction and Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here and he should be back on track.

Sound_Burier · 03-11-2006 06:38 AM

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Surly some of these things could be fixed with a simple run through with a spell checker.

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You should see far fewer typo's in powers with I7. Thing's like "it's" for "its" on the other hand, are still likely to crop up and be low priority fixes.

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Ah, and my teacher said English was dieing.
Its alive, it's alive and well.

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Unfortunately, it would appear that English is indeed "dying".

QuinnBlackwatch · 03-11-2006 07:18 AM

I've seen "loose" used on many occasion in the game where "lose" was meant. Rather sad actually.

NancY · 03-11-2006 07:17 PM

Got another one. I don't want to link it because I don't want to spoil the mission arc.

It's with Technician Naylor, in the text that offers the mission titled, 'Find the Truth'.

"I don't beleive it, not a word." Believe is spelled wrong.

BrasswireBrush · 03-12-2006 01:01 AM

Howbout this for confusing. There's a low level story arc given by Mr Bocor, the one where you face Duke Modrogar, and in it you're supposed to recover a journal. Who wrote the journal? Good question. Over the course of four missions the person is referred to as:
Padre Henri
Padre Hardi
Padre Hadri

Rather confusing since there is also a Father Henri who plays a role in the history of the Isles. Same person? Possibly, but then why the Padre/Father switch. Father Henri is supposed to be french so I wouldnt think Padre is appropriate anyway. Very distracting and immersion breaking. Normally I think this is a great game, but that just had me shaking my head in embarrasment.

Heraclea · 03-12-2006 02:30 PM

I still miss the Demon Overloards.

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QuinnBlackwatch · 03-12-2006 06:18 PM

rofl

Reinate · 03-12-2006 11:58 PM

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Got another one. I don't want to link it because I don't want to spoil the mission arc.

It's with Technician Naylor, in the text that offers the mission titled, 'Find the Truth'.

"I don't beleive it, not a word." Believe is spelled wrong.

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I cracked up when i saw one from tech naylor.
To me it looks like your trying to make the guy sound Australian. But while reading the mission text i came across TEH and i couldnt stop laughing.
I wondered if i should or should not report it.
After 15 minutes of pondering and staring at TEH i sent the bug report tho.

McBeast · 03-13-2006 11:23 AM

In "Operative Kirkland", they mean "discreetly", but they say "discretely".

Elviswind · 04-15-2006 09:31 AM

Ask about the contact Kara the Scorpion and you'll find she was a "top-notch assasin."