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Offline eliex

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Re: Dealing with fan-made, badly-spelled Tech Descriptions
Reply #20 on: August 29, 2009, 01:30:36 am
Changing sentence structure while retaining its original meaning is fine, but changing it to mean something different, is not.
 

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Re: Dealing with fan-made, badly-spelled Tech Descriptions
Reply #21 on: August 29, 2009, 02:35:41 am
Frankly I still think it should reflect what's in the .tbms, but...
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Re: Dealing with fan-made, badly-spelled Tech Descriptions
Reply #22 on: August 29, 2009, 04:39:23 am
Quote from: NGTM-1R on August 29, 2009, 02:35:41 am
Frankly I still think it should reflect what's in the .tbms, but...

Yes, that's the basic principle. Otherwise why call it "Tech Description," not simply "Description" or "Information"?
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Re: Dealing with fan-made, badly-spelled Tech Descriptions
Reply #23 on: August 29, 2009, 08:29:26 am
imho there is only one excuse for bad spelling and grammar and that is translating between languages

With modern word processors you have a tool useful for basic spelling and grammar, OK it's not perfect but a quick thesaurus check will reveal if you get the right word
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Re: Dealing with fan-made, badly-spelled Tech Descriptions
Reply #24 on: August 29, 2009, 08:38:50 am
hippocrite

misspelling intentional
 

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Re: Dealing with fan-made, badly-spelled Tech Descriptions
Reply #25 on: August 29, 2009, 03:45:56 pm
Quote from: TopAce on August 29, 2009, 04:39:23 am
Quote from: NGTM-1R on August 29, 2009, 02:35:41 am
Frankly I still think it should reflect what's in the .tbms, but...

Yes, that's the basic principle. Otherwise why call it "Tech Description," not simply "Description" or "Information"?

Then why are we correcting its spelling, let alone fixing its grammar? :P
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Re: Dealing with fan-made, badly-spelled Tech Descriptions
Reply #26 on: August 29, 2009, 04:56:43 pm
Ask those who do change those things. I wouldn't change anything at all.
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Offline Akalabeth Angel

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Re: Dealing with fan-made, badly-spelled Tech Descriptions
Reply #27 on: August 29, 2009, 11:17:09 pm
Quote from: TopAce on August 29, 2009, 04:56:43 pm
Ask those who do change those things. I wouldn't change anything at all.

Yeah I didn't either.




If people are annoyed by badly worded tech descriptions but have their hands tied in terms of changing them, they could always proofread the tech descriptions for a campaign, give it to the author and have them use it as a fix. Then your corrected tech desc will be "official" and you can likewise copy them into the Wiki. Har de har har  ;7

But . . .personally, I wouldn't bother.
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