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== Unresolved ==
== Unresolved ==
"'''Urban Dead is a low-tech zombie apocalypse browser ''game'''where'' thousands of survivors and zombies battle for the control of a quarantined city"
That is the text you recieve upon logging out. Note that "game" and "where" are the same word. [[User:John Ibans|John Ibans]] 16:25, 5 October 2009 (BST)
"You are Jaaam and you are dead. You have 60 Hit Points and 1 Experience Points. You have 34 Action Points remaining."
"You are Jaaam and you are dead. You have 60 Hit Points and 1 Experience Points. You have 34 Action Points remaining."



Revision as of 15:25, 5 October 2009


Urban Dead might have a few grammatical errors in it. If you find one, post them here and the staff will update the in-game grammar, removing common errors from every day life.

Unresolved

"Urban Dead is a low-tech zombie apocalypse browser gamewhere thousands of survivors and zombies battle for the control of a quarantined city"

That is the text you recieve upon logging out. Note that "game" and "where" are the same word. John Ibans 16:25, 5 October 2009 (BST)

"You are Jaaam and you are dead. You have 60 Hit Points and 1 Experience Points. You have 34 Action Points remaining."

I should be having 1 experience point. Not sure but the same might occur with hp and ap.--xoxo 05:32, 31 August 2009 (BST)

Just check, same goes for ap.--xoxo 05:47, 31 August 2009 (BST)

Resolved

Needs a space

Found this inside the NE corner of Treweeke Mall (look for the bold writing):

You are inside Treweeke Mall. Trails of looted debris litter the floors and escalators. The building has been extremely heavily barricaded. There is a crowd of 53 survivors gathered here...


...A portable generator has been set up here. It is running, and powering a radio transmitter that's currently set to 26.36 MHz. Red Christmas lights decorate the room.One of the shops has been decorated with a fire-damaged painting, a torn painting, a fish skeleton, a European painting, five African sculptures, two skulls and a cracked sculpture.

Can't be bothered with a screenshot, but there's a space missing between "room." and "One". Pretty simple.--Nallan (Talk) 08:16, 18 July 2008 (BST)

They --> It

Error: You attack a zombie. They lose 2 hp and fall to 48. Correction: You attack a zombie. It loses 2 hp and falls to 48.

Reason: A zombie, or any person in the game for that matter, is a singular entity. They is a pronoun that refers to more than one element. Therefore, since the zombie/player is singular, so should be the pronouns and verbs.

  • Quoting from wikipedia "...modern uses appear to be driven by the needs of gender neutral English specifically where English's syntactically singular third-person personal pronouns are all either gender-specific (he and she and their inflected forms) or inappropriate for reference to people (it and its inflected forms)" So this isn't exactly a grammatical error, although it may be considered appropriate to call zombies "it"s -- boxy T L ZS Nuts2U DA 07:09, 1 June 2007 (BST)
    • No, it is NOT incorrect grammar. And, zombies are played by people and don't like being "it", thanks. --WanYao 07:04, 21 August 2008 (BST)

I'm not sure how to move such information, but I have a stash of them on the main page about 1/2way down. Can somebody move those here if possible? Also, on the military reports, "organized" is spelled wrong.--Kolechovski 20:40, 29 May 2008 (BST)

  • Again... not an error. Rather, "organised" is the correct UK spelling. --WanYao
    • And I take it "tyre" and a bunch of other horrible typos are actually correct UK spellings? because if so, I think we need a list of the ones that vary from UK and US, so we don't waste time reporting spelling errors that are correct UK spellings. Oh, and the home page is missing a space in the first sentence.--Kolechovski 21:07, 28 August 2008 (BST)
      • Or, maybe, you're just an idiot that doesn't understand basic UK/American Grammar translations.--/~Rakuen~\Talk Domo.gif I Still Love Grim 01:23, 26 October 2008 (UTC)