Grammatical Errors in Urban Dead: Difference between revisions
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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. | 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they 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 -- [[User:Boxy|boxy]] <sup>[[User_talk:boxy|T]] [[User:Boxy/Locations|L]] [[Zombie Squad|ZS]] [[Location Nuts|Nuts2U]] [[Dead Animals/Redux|DA]]</sup> 07:09, 1 June 2007 (BST) | *Quoting from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they 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 -- [[User:Boxy|boxy]] <sup>[[User_talk:boxy|T]] [[User:Boxy/Locations|L]] [[Zombie Squad|ZS]] [[Location Nuts|Nuts2U]] [[Dead Animals/Redux|DA]]</sup> 07:09, 1 June 2007 (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.--[[User:Kolechovski|Kolechovski]] 20:40, 29 May 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.--[[User:Kolechovski|Kolechovski]] 20:40, 29 May 2008 (BST) | ||
*Again... not an error. Rather, "organised" is the ''correct'' UK spelling. --[[User:WanYao|WanYao]] | *Again... not an error. Rather, "organised" is the ''correct'' UK spelling. --[[User:WanYao|WanYao]] | ||
Revision as of 21:50, 14 April 2009
Urban Dead has a few grammatical errors in it. Update them here and maybe the staff will update the in-game grammar, removing common errors from every day life.
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)
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
I Still Love Grim 01:23, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
- Or, maybe, you're just an idiot that doesn't understand basic UK/American Grammar translations.--/~Rakuen~\Talk
- 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)
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)
- Guys, is there some kind of template for posting flaws to this page, or should we just add stuff on down the line?--Kolechovski 19:21, 20 August 2008 (BST)
