TYPOS in Conquest's cover

nproenca · November 25, 2003, 18:38

Hi everyone.
I just recently bought my copy of Conquests. Only this week it was available here in Portugal (Europe...).
Anyway, below I'm going to quote what's on my game cover (inside a triangle on the top right corner of the box cover

"Expansion Pack
MUTLIPLAYER+
7 new CIVILAZATIONS".

How sad...

Anyway, these new civilizations seem pretty interesting.
Too bad I had to go through Civ1, 2, 3 and 2 expansion packs to find the Portuguese on this wonderfull game.

vmxa1 · November 25, 2003, 21:21

It is so much easier to type words with the wrong spelling on a computer than it is with pen amd paper, so I give them some slack, but yeah the QA should have seen it.

statusperfect · November 26, 2003, 05:05

Harovan · November 26, 2003, 07:48

MUTLIPLAYER is spelled so by purpose. If it doesn't work again (like in PtW) and the crowd yells "There's the word MULTIPLAYER on the box", they can just respond "Where exactly?"

MyOlde · November 26, 2003, 07:52

Typos in subject heading: should be "Conquests' cover"

nproenca · November 26, 2003, 08:30

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Originally posted by MyOlde
Typos in subject heading: should be "Conquests' cover"

Well, English is not my mother language.
Anyway, if written in Latin it would be "lapsus teclae".
And no, Latin is not my mother language, I'm not that old :-)

steven8r · November 26, 2003, 15:10

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Originally posted by nproenca
Well, English is not my mother language.

Don't feel bad about that. I've known some folks whom do consider English as their first language, and they 'still' can't spell.

Of course the 'Brits' have been telling us 'Yanks' that same thing for years now.

Harovan · November 26, 2003, 15:46

Just take a look in the off topic. Lots of such misspellings, all by native English speakers.

It's not 'beleive', but believe.

It's not 'recieve', but receive.

It's not the 'midevil age', but the medieval age.

And it is not 'diety', but deity, dammit. Good thing you hardly can misspell 'Sid'.

Saint Marcus · November 26, 2003, 18:44

Just take a look in the off topic. Lots of such misspellings, all by native English speakers.

Quote:

pen amd paper

pen and paper

MrWhereItsAt · November 26, 2003, 23:50

/me thinks some of these are clearly just typos, and vows to keep a careful eye out so he can mock terribly any of those posting here if (heaven forbid! ) any typos ever appear in their posts.

Provost Harrison · November 27, 2003, 05:52

But to spell something wrong like this on a cover is rather alarming...

Tiberius · November 27, 2003, 06:05

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Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Cid Mayer used to make good games, but he doesn't now

Who? El Cid ?

If you take a look at the civ3.com's source code, you will see that they've included among the keywords words such as:
"Sid Mier, Sid Meyer, Sid Maier"

They forgot about Cid Meier. though

Provost Harrison · November 27, 2003, 06:17

Cid Mayor's Sivilazashun Free!

Tiberius · November 27, 2003, 06:18

Quote:

Originally posted by nproenca
"Expansion Pack
MUTLIPLAYER+
7 new CIVILAZATIONS".

Hehe, this is hilarious. They missplelled only 40% of the words from the cover.

They told us they improved Multiplayer! Now it is Mutliplayer !

Tiberius · November 27, 2003, 06:31

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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Cid Mayor's Sivilazashun Free!

why free ?

Kuciwalker · November 27, 2003, 12:07

free = three

Tiberius · November 27, 2003, 13:35

what, tree ?

The Viceroy · November 27, 2003, 14:20

Its amazing how many people mis-spell medieval

just do a search on Medeival on google, and you'll see what I mean.

curtsibling · November 27, 2003, 16:05

LOL!

This thread's typo fascism level is increasing!

statusperfect · November 27, 2003, 16:13

BTW. How could he see the typos when they were IN the cover??

nproenca · November 27, 2003, 20:32

Quote:

Originally posted by statusperfect
BTW. How could he see the typos when they were IN the cover??

I said they were ON the cover.

Oh, and btw, my cover is printed in color, or is it in colour?
It's not BWhite, that's for sure :-)

Kuciwalker · November 28, 2003, 02:16

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Originally posted by The Viceroy
Its amazing how many people mis-spell medieval

just do a search on Medeival on google, and you'll see what I mean.

Interestingly, misspelling most words gets you far fewer results, but often more pertinent ones.

The Viceroy · November 28, 2003, 08:42

ha ha .. so true .. Ive seen this a few times also, however, I do like the way Google asked me if I meant "Medieval" and not Medeival ..

jkelly · November 30, 2003, 00:57

Nproenca,

It's 'colour' in English, 'color' in American.

Inverse Icarus · November 30, 2003, 01:52

so, it's color.

limey brits.

Algernon Pondlife · November 30, 2003, 09:55

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer mediaeval.

Of course "color" is an English spelling that travelled to the colonies before a major French incursion influenced English in England.

To get more up to date, civilization is still the legitimate English (UK) spelling. Dictionaries recognize civilisation as an alternative, but it is only in tha last twenty years that the English have started to make the false assumption that the z is particularly American and have begun to reject it here. And it is the advent of the ubiquitous spell-checker and its deference to this misconception that has accelerated the loss of z in many English words.

I see at least one typographical error above. this medium lends itself to such. Lifeistooshort!

The Viceroy · November 30, 2003, 15:30

Interesting .. I must confess .. I didn't know that, and had simply assumed that the American's had a 'Z' fetish ..

Algernon Pondlife · November 30, 2003, 17:25

There is a whole range of words that can legitimately end in -ise or -ize in English. Dictionaries traditionally have given preference to -ize up to and including Chambers 21st Century (in1999! the most recent one I have referenced). This is true for the whole English speaking world with the exception of the USA where the -ize is considered manadatory. (of course, there is also a list of words for which -ise is mandatory throughout, but it is a smaller list). The -ize preference is to do with the Greek root words and endings and is therefore not arbitray.

However, English is a living language and there is a clear drift away from -ize at least in the UK, largely for the reasons I mentioned earlier. I rather hope that it will be a long time, if ever, before the -ize actually becomes obsolete, but the false perception that it is an American thing is growing rapidly and it is having a strong influence in this country.