Re: *Band naming and the English Language

pete m <pmac360@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On May 7, 11:07 am, Ceilti <michaelcahi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
This is not a discourse on the current lamentable state of English,
but that would be an interesting discourse.

In High School and in University there are many books which over the
past 150 years have standardized English and in particular Grammer.
Saying you don't like uppercase lettering, or the grammatical

It took many generations to standardize words, gammer, syntax, and
capitilization which some of you find so galling. I think we need to

Not to mentoion Speling and orthografy.

These discussions are mostly moot. The spells have titles that should be
capitalized. However, the titles of the scrolls and potions are things
like "oof gumba sptqqz". The grammar police should be arguing about whether
it should be "Oof Gumba Sptqqz" vs "Oof gumba Sptqqz". I am not up to that
task when "gumba" is merely a string of random characters.

We've already given in to expedience over grammar by using the construction
"a scroll of foo bar". IMO, brevity is more important than grammar, given
the constraints of the display.

More grammatically correct might be descriptions along the lines of:

a scroll whose effect matches that of the priest spell "Find Traps"

Even that may be incorrect, since it doesn't cost any mana, but I'm not going
to bother to figure out the perfect wording.

IMO the order of priorities ought to be:
(1) Do what makes the games easy to use and understand
(2) Do what looks pleasing
(3) Get the grammar right


OTOH, I don't see why one capitalization is more pleasing than another, so I
don't mind if Ceilti wants to propose any particular capitalization rules.


Eddie
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