The life of a grammatical pedant

[Jackie Silver]

I recommend reading Middle and/or Old English - it's a sure-fire cure to all grammatical and spelling pedantry. Half of that stuff's just random nonsense made up by eejits who were trying to pretend that English is like Latin.

Couple of examples:

to vs too - too (in the sense of too much) used to be spelled to

the dreaded alot - people get upset about alot, but don't even notice alone ("all one", i.e. by one's self)

English is first and foremost a language thought and spoken. And it's free for us all to innovate as we like, so have fun with it! It's already an unholy hybrid of Germanic and Romance with bits and pieces from all over the world shoved in the mix and written using an alphabet which doesn't really have the right sounds, it's not like we can make it worse...


Also and tangentially: Nostalgia for Infinity is a brilliant name. I'm on reading Revenger at the moment...

 

[Heavy Johnson]

I honestly don't understand why we can't change ship name / ID while in space. Why does this have to be done at a station?

 

[JonathanBurnage]

Cue the introduction of the painting limpet controller module...

You should of been more careful.

I think you’ll find it’s “You should have been more careful”

 

[Manticore]

I managed to spell mine as "PAradox Drive" and didn't realise until a couple of thousand systems later I saw it as that in the EDSM flight log. That upset me.

Enter K much?

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

Pedantry?
Spelling error /= grammar error.

 

[Sapyx]

I honestly don't understand why we can't change ship name / ID while in space. Why does this have to be done at a station?

You could in theory rename your ship electronically, of course, but pan-galactic identity theft laws prevent you from flying a spaceship with a name painted on it that's different from your electronically registered ship name. So you'd have to do an EVA out onto your ship's hull with a couple of cans of space paint. Since you don't have an EVA suit, or space paint, you have to wait until you get to an outfitting dock, where the nanobot-swarm spraypainters can rename your ship for you in seconds.

 

[Allitnil]

Enter K much?

Only during The Unconscious Life.

 

[hems303]

I always double double check my ship name spellings when launching a new ship....all 7 are named after Pink Floyd tracks....It's amazing how many appropriate track titles there are... I did once foul up with.... "Astronomy Domine"

 

[Ian9989]

I always double double check my ship name spellings when launching a new ship....all 7 are named after Pink Floyd tracks....It's amazing how many appropriate track titles there are... I did once foul up with.... "Astronomy Domine"

Astronomical Dominoes doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

 

[Rudi Raumkraut]

Me bugs more that we still dont know the (wrong written) name!!

 

[Qohen Leth]

It's all about priorities.

 

[seko]

I am in a quandary.
3,000 Ly from the bubble and last night whilst looking at a pretty gas giant I realised I had spelt my ship name wrong.

This sort of thing really bugs me. So do I go back to the nearest station and correct the error, or do I stick some gaffer tape over so I cant see it and continue my journey.

At least my journal can begin with "The expedition of the misspelt ship".

OCD is strong in this one

 

[Whiterose]

What's the ship name?

the ship is "Dissonant Congnitive" and should be "Dissonant Cognitive" I have an extra n in my cog...

 

[StiTch]

I could care less.

*boom tish*

Z...

Spoiler

I am glad people are addressing the core and most important aspects of the game

Just taking a leaf out of FD's book

 

[Polygonal Spaceship]

the ship is "Dissonant Congnitive" and should be "Dissonant Cognitive" I have an extra n in my cog...

And if reading that little typo all the way around the galaxy isn't enough to give you cognitive dissonance, nothing will...

 

[[VR] optimal_909]

the ship is "Dissonant Congnitive" and should be "Dissonant Cognitive" I have an extra n in my cog...

Well, it is a good match with "Dissonant".
But I understand your issue, I'd probably go back and change it.

And if reading that little typo all the way around the galaxy isn't enough to give you cognitive dissonance, nothing will...

Haha, much better put than I did.

 

[Genar-Hofoen]

I'm still sore that I can't name one of my ships "Anticipation Of A New Griefer's Arrival, The".

In your case I'd just carry on, and treat the "Dissonant Congnitive" as a quirky in-joke.

Bonus: My Anaconda is called "Mystery Wrapped Enigma", because again, not enough characters to have "A Mystery Wrapped Around An Enigma" - we need more character allocation for ship names, Frontier

 

[varonica]

You're clearly not one, then.

Even as a joke, that would have been too painful to write for a True Pedant (of the Grammar or Spelling variety).

Muphry* wins again...

* look it up, if you think that's a typo!!

I know right.

Honestly I was thinking of naming next ship, wait for it;

Possessive'

He he!

 

[Polygonal Spaceship]

I'm still sore that I can't name one of my ships "Anticipation Of A New Griefer's Arrival, The".

In your case I'd just carry on, and treat the "Dissonant Congnitive" as a quirky in-joke.

Bonus: My Anaconda is called "Mystery Wrapped Enigma", because again, not enough characters to have "A Mystery Wrapped Around An Enigma" - we need more character allocation for ship names, Frontier

More characters for ship names = more Culture references

(Though I can't see them letting us have enough letters for the Mistake Not...'s full name)

 

[marx]

The funny thing is, one of my ship names was not unique (literally), but crew members told me that that was censored. No idea why it would be.