Well, Bruce said there'd be a date for the Dev Diaries this Thursday, after which indeed there was a certain amount of backtracking.
Given the deplorable state of that sentence, I think I'll pass on taking instruction in English from you.
Well, I'm rather hoping the first dev diary will give us the first reasonably full overview of everything that's going to be in Odyssey, which I'm inclined to class as an announcement, but hey, semantics....
Well, I did say "hoping", not "expecting". We could well end next week with a much better understanding of how to create a "tenuous" atmosphere and little else.
Given the deplorable state of that sentence, I think I'll pass on taking instruction in English from you.
I read your original sentence and thought that there was nothing more wrong with it than a basic typing mistake, and forums posts/text messages have lots of those. Indeed, I've seen many of those in forum posts from native English speakers, as well as having made many of those typing mistakes myself; so please don't need to beat your self up about it. What's your native language?
With a couple of minor corrections that becomes:
I read your original sentence and thought that there was nothing more wrong with it than a basic typing mistake, and forums posts/text messages have lots of those. Indeed, I've seen many of those in forum posts from native English speakers, as well as having made many of those typing mistakes myself; so please don't need to beat your self up about it. What's your native language?
Since you asked for the corrections to improve your English the original sentence you and dagwit were discussing, I'll give you some pointers.
The original sentence was...
With a couple of minor corrections that becomes:
It is not semantics, it's that you don't know the meaning of the word "announcement."
At the start, the second word of the sentence "Is" should only have a lower case "i" not a capital letter. Capital letters mid sentence are for the word I or proper nouns like "English" or "Monday", every other word in the middle of a sentence states with a lower case letter. After the first word instance of the word semantics, I changed the word "Is" to "it's" removing the capitalisation of the letter I and changing the word from "is" to "it's". Generally speaking, if you start a sentence or resume after the pause indicated by a comma with the word "is", it means that what is going to come next is a question. For example:
I've made a few corrections to some of your sentences, is that OK with you?
Do you see how the position of the word "is" leads what comes next to being a question?
Like I say matey, it's minor corrections
Yeah, I was being a bit hard on govny because he is, well, better at English than I probably would be at his native language, but I'm better at English than he is, and I have some better sense of how far you can stretch the meaning of words for comic effect than he has, and I didn't much appreciate his assumption of the opposite.
... misspelling Odyssey multiple times...
duck'n'run I would mock you for the typo except that I had to go back and correct one in my own post.
Now I feel a serious compulsion to search for all the posts in which I've used the word, to see if I ever misspelled it.
Imagine that commander as pirate npc throwing hatch breaker to board your ship but just to check grammaticals in your data transmissions...you have 15 seconds to let me proof read your data or else!
