Spelling and Grammar

I half agree with you, but "Colossus" also sounds a tad generic to me. 'Colossal Stone Golem' might be a good fusion of the names if they ever want to use one.

 

The wikipedia article on ellipses has some syntax information.

I'll quote the part I find important to our situation.

EDIT: Whoops, double post. I hope it's okay, since the last one was a few days ago.

 

The penultimate difficulty is called "IM COMING FOR YOU". I suspect there's an apostrophe missing there.

 

Ah - good one. That's one I've always noticed but not remembered.

It's probably not that big of a deal.

 

Except Shrooblord was asking why the game's ellipses have two dots and not three, so... what does that have to do with spacing?

 

Damn this community is helpful ^^

Kudos to you Shrooblord

 

I asked about the general grammatical rules of using what are apparently called ellipses (yay my Greek education tells me what that means). Ellipses are always three dots (so two is wrong, no matter how many times you see it) and apparently also follow normal punctuation rules in regards to for example spacing.

This thread sometimes makes me feel like a detail-dependant IRS agent... xD

 

Double posts are okay so long as it's constructive and at least 24 hours after your last one, so no worries.

Also, great catches Shrooblord. I remember spotting a few irregularities myself but I either totally forgot, or totally blew it off, haha. I guess I just skimmed over it.

 

If the whole sentence is "The Alien Head wards sickness," then it should not be changed to "The Alien Head ward off sickness." If anything, it's more right the first time. Though, I'd prefer to see it say "The Alien Head wards against sickness." (wards needs to keep the -s on the end)

 

No, I wasn't saying that the sentence should become "The Alien Head ward off sickness." If you look carefully at my post, you'll see I was using 'wards sickness' and 'ward off sickness' in the sentence, like in speech. It was not a quote, but more a way of quickly saying that there should be an 'off' in there. Maybe I should've been more clear, but I thought it was obvious.
The actual quote is

and I said
the alien head 'wards sickness'
which was not a direct quotation, but I was referring to the way it was put down in the game.

In any case,

should become

(but if you've played version 0.30.1.3, you'll see that the text right now does in fact read:)

Also, I just noticed this, but

The way it's described is actually fine, the first part of the sentence being a relative clause to 'this behemoth', but your suggestions work fine too.

 

I've got a new one: the description for Jar of Souls reads

which should be

 

Hey I didn't even notice the 'an' mistake. Too focussed on the in-the-screen thing I guess.

 

This is the best thread ever

 

I was wondering why they started to flop around on the floor after I killed all enemies...

(just for good measure: it should be heat-seeking)

 

~ Release edition! ~

Prison shackles description:
"We are shipping about.. 500, because we have nothing better to do with them then smelt them for steel, [...]."
(should be three dots and "than" respectively).

Time Keeper's Secret description: the same paragraph is pasted twice.

Bandit's character select screen:
"Smoke bomb
Turn invisible. After 3 seconds or after using another ability, surpriseand stun enemies for 140% damage."
(no space between "surprise" and "and")

 

Instane Minefield description:
"I know that hercules is simply held because of pride; we've blown any resources we could've mined into the stratosphere by now".
(Hercules)

 

Monster Log for Child:

should be