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More nitpicking about periods (A list of cards not ending in punctuation) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=51007.msg1095084#msg1095084
« on: August 29, 2013, 02:00:40 am »
This list does not consistently include upped cards, often when card texts are the same
This may seem inane, but I made the list; so I figure I might as well post it here for reference

Pillars/Pendulums/Towers/Marks (:entropy pend uses Alternatively as opposed to Alternately)
:rainbow
Short Sword/Long Sword
:entropy
Maxwell's Demon
Chaos Seed/Chaos Power (It may also be kerning issues in the font with "t.")
Butterfly Effect (ends with ability)
Purple Nymph
:death
Virus/Retrovirus
Flesh Spider/Flesh Recluse
Vulture (ends with +1/+1)
Boneyard/Graveyard
Poison/Deadly Poison
Arsenic
Soul Catcher (ends with :death)
:gravity
Armagio
Gravity Shield
Momentum (ends with +1/+1)
Otyugh (ends with +1/+1)
Graviton Fire Eater (ends with +2/+0)
Chimera
:earth
Titanium Shield/Diamond Shield
Plate Armor (ends with +0/+3)
Heavy Armor (ends with +0/+6)
:life
Forest Spirit/Forest Spectre (ends with +2/+2)
Druidic Staff
Empathic Bond
:fire
Fire Spirit/Fire Spectre (ends with +2/+0)
Fire Shield
Deflagration
Lava Golem (ends with +2/+2)
Rage Potion (ends with +5/-5)
Rage Elixir (ends with +6/-6)
Phoenix/Minor Phoenix
:water
Ice Shield/Permafrost Shield
Arctic Squid/Arctic Octopus
Trident/Poseidon
Nymph's Tears (see Chaos Seed)
Solar Shield (ends with :light)
Guardian Angel/Archangel
(Improved) Blessing (ends with +3/+3)
Morning Star/Morning Glory
Luciferin
Crusader
:air
Dragonfly
Thunderstorm (also doesn't state "Removes invisibility." Lightning Storm does)
Flying Weapon
Fog Shield
Firefly
Shard of Freedom
:time
Deja Vu
Fate Egg
Procrastination
Reverse Time
Golden Hourglass
Sundial
Scarab (both after description of health, and ability)
:darkness
Devourer (both after description of passive, and ability)
Parasite
Steal
Nightfall (ends with +1/+1)
Eclipse (ends with +2/+1)
Improved Dusk (Dusk Mantle does, however, end with a period)
Gargoyle (ends with +0/+20)
Shard of Void
:aether
Parallel Universe
Phase Spider/Phase Recluse
Psion

On Bolts: the period after "possession" seems a bit spaced (as opposed to Seraph)
Personal note: I prefer cards not ending in periods

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Re: More nitpicking about periods (A list of cards not ending in punctuation) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=51007.msg1095093#msg1095093
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2013, 02:45:30 am »
There are many more grammatical issues with the cards than mere periods.  Many (especially older) cards lack appropriate capitalization, and some, as you noted, use wording that is, shall we say, less than elegant.

I cringe every time I see one.  I also figure that I do enough nit-picking around here already, and that the lone coder is much more concerned with the operation of the game than with the musings of a Grammar Nazi, so I release the cringe, keep playing, and say nothing.
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Re: More nitpicking about periods (A list of cards not ending in punctuation) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=51007.msg1095163#msg1095163
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2013, 05:01:55 pm »
While I agree with your sentiment, I believe having these minor cringes centralized to a forum topic that's easily ignored can be useful. & that may be crazy

Listing grammatical errors here keeps it to one topic, so is less bothersome when unwanted. While being available if ever desired. Should you list grammatical errors, I'll rename this to some title more suiting of it's new breadth of nitpicking

Also I post this as a programmer. The company I work for recently decided to relocalize our product, so I had to skim through a large code base looking for non logging English strings which needed to be moved into resx files. Knowing where non localized text already appeared in the program would've been useful. This is different, but similar

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Re: More nitpicking about periods (A list of cards not ending in punctuation) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=51007.msg1095272#msg1095272
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2013, 05:00:53 am »
Okay, fine.  Currently, I'm working on updating some things with the FGei project.  When I'm done with that, I'll go through the current card database and proofread all of them.  How's that?  :)
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