Typos/Grammar Thread (ALL factions)

[Kull]

Please use this thread to post any typos or grammar problems you find. I am particularly interested in those which wouldn't be caught with spellcheck software, such as meat-meet or led-lead. You can either post screen shots or text (if the latter, be sure to identify 1) the typo, and 2) the text box in which it appeared).

For some examples, please see THIS THREAD. Thanks!!

NOTE: If you have previously posted this kind of problem in a thread different from the one above, just add a link to your earlier post.

[hoom]

The 'harms lenght' one has an additional error in the second word ie should be 'length'.

Ingame 'Getai' is spelt 'Getia' I have noticed this on tool tips including on the custom battle setup which could be an intentional tense (or somesuch) change but looks on the face of it to be a transposition.

Not strictly a grammar/typo but it feels to me that there is too much usage of 'Elan' in unit descriptions.
Elan this elan that elan the other, it seems a bit cheapened when everyone is fighting with a rare level of elan

Elite African Pikemen are referred to in their description as eg 'Elite African Pikeman are...' which is not really right

[Kull]

The 'harms lenght' one has an additional error in the second word ie should be 'length'.

Done

Ingame 'Getai' is spelt 'Getia' I have noticed this on tool tips including on the custom battle setup which could be an intentional tense (or somesuch) change but looks on the face of it to be a transposition.

I need some help here. Exactly what were you doing when this spelling appeared? A screenshot would be useful, if possible.

Not strictly a grammar/typo but it feels to me that there is too much usage of 'Elan' in unit descriptions.
Elan this elan that elan the other, it seems a bit cheapened when everyone is fighting with a rare level of elan

Don't get me started. Suffice it to say, this level of editing is what I call "third pass" - first we deal with spelling errors, second we fix grammar, and only after all that is cleaned up will we look into rewriting the descriptions. Just so you understand - the buildings text file alone occupies over 600 pages of text in my editor, and it will take many days just to perform a 1 & 2 pass edit on that file. I can scarcely even imagine how long the 3rd pass will take.

Elite African Pikemen are referred to in their description as eg 'Elite African Pikeman are...' which is not really right

Done

Thanks for posting this!!

[Simetrical]

Ingame 'Getai' is spelt 'Getia' I have noticed this on tool tips including on the custom battle setup which could be an intentional tense (or somesuch) change but looks on the face of it to be a transposition.

"Getia" is the name of the region, "Getai" is the name of the people (basically meaning "Getians"). Both are correct in their appropriate contexts.

[ScionTheWorm]

"Getia" is the name of the region, "Getai" is the name of the people (basically meaning "Getians"). Both are correct in their appropriate contexts.

but Getia under the faction icon waiting for next turn is wrong, right?

[Simetrical]

but Getia under the faction icon waiting for next turn is wrong, right?

I don't think so. Did you check with the appropriate people, Kull?

[Kull]

I don't think so. Did you check with the appropriate people, Kull?

Nope. I believe this comes from SHARED.TXT, and I changed it since everything else I'd seen up to that time referred to the Dacians as "Getai", not "Getia". Technically I may be wrong here (since Getia is the nation, Getai the people), but every person who plays this mod from now until the end of time is going to be commenting on the "Getia" typo. Is there ANY other spelling we can come up with that's historically correct and not an apparent transposition? Getaio, Getaia, Getaie?

[Simetrical]

This is all I've collected so far.

• In Iberian Caetratii and Iberian Equites Caetratii, possibly as well as other Iberian troops, "ability" is spelled "hability" and "constituted" "constitued".
• Tons of typos for Iberian Scutarii. (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...6&postcount=13)
• Ragon Sauramatae Vaezdaettae should have a "not" in "They are, however, suitable nor prepared..."
• Hrussáthêwáz: unuasual, aniquilate, eficient

Not strictly a grammar/typo but it feels to me that there is too much usage of 'Elan' in unit descriptions.
Elan this elan that elan the other, it seems a bit cheapened when everyone is fighting with a rare level of elan

Plus it should be élan.

[Rodion Romanovich]

I noticed in battle the equites use a "u" instead of a "v", which is inconsistent with the policy elsewhere. Same goes for "equites singulares" and "equites consulares".

[Kull]

I noticed in battle the equites use a "u" instead of a "v", which is inconsistent with the policy elsewhere. Same goes for "equites singulares" and "equites consulares".

We'll fix this in the titles, but will use "u" instead of "v" in descriptions so as not to torture the tongues of EB players.

[hoom]

I need some help here. Exactly what were you doing when this spelling appeared? A screenshot would be useful, if possible.

Tooltips.
Campaign selection screen, custom battle setup & in battle when you put your mouse over the unit/faction.

There are a bunch of other similar oddities in these same tooltips eg Romani show as Romans

Sim :p

[edit]There are already several mentions of tooltip text being wrong in the known bugs thread so I think there should be more of a general review of faction naming in tooltips rather than specific error fixes[/edit]

[Kull]

Tooltips.
Campaign selection screen, custom battle setup & in battle when you put your mouse over the unit/faction.

There are a bunch of other similar oddities in these same tooltips eg Romani show as Romans

Whew - that took a while to track down. Turns out that different text files contribute the descriptions you see on that customized battle screen, and while two are synchronized (both have the "Getai" typo), the third is not. Thanks for getting more specific - that really helped me track this down!

There are already several mentions of tooltip text being wrong in the known bugs thread so I think there should be more of a general review of faction naming in tooltips rather than specific error fixes

That's pretty much my edit philosophy - attack each of the text files individually without regard to the posting of individual spelling/grammar errors. However, that approach does not catch naming discrepancies BETWEEN files, and it also doesn't (usually) allow me to find correctly spelled words that are incorrect in the context of a sentence (hence my emphasis on the reporting of errors like "meet-meat", "quite-quiet", and "where-were" - to name just a few)

Again, thanks for helping out!

[Kull]

This is all I've collected so far.[*]In Iberian Caetratii and Iberian Equites Caetratii, possibly as well as other Iberian troops, "ability" is spelled "hability" and "constituted" "constitued".[*]Tons of typos for Iberian Scutarii. (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...6&postcount=13)

Done.

[*]Ragon Sauramatae Vaezdaettae should have a "not" in "They are, however, suitable nor prepared..."

Done.....but that presents another question. Compare your spelling of this unit with the one in EXPORT_UNITS.TXT (below) - which is correct?

Ragon Sauromatae Uaezdaettae

[*]Hrussáthêwáz: unuasual, aniquilate, eficient

Done

Thanks for posting these!

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Someone just posted this image - and there is a typo in the trait description:

https://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?...tagydia7kx.jpg

Just do a search in the file for "were stricken be" and change it to "were stricken by".

[Malrubius]

What? A trait typo? Noooo!

Fixed for the future.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I think that was causing some of those numerous trait CTD's, by the way.

[Malrubius]

I think that was causing some of those numerous trait CTD's, by the way.

If it had been in edct instead of export_VnVs, I'd believe it!

[MeroFromVero]

The Pahlavan building Basic Farming contains the phrase "The Pahlava have taken that a steppe further..." should be a step further, right?