Apostrophes

I know this is an old thread, but I would really like to see this addressed in a patch. As a teacher, I wince everytime I see the mistake.

The message is generic, so you're going to end up with a grammar oddity sometime, no matter what.

Either Two Fighter's Constructed or Two Type Ss constructed.

Yes, the grammar in the game makes me cringe, as does most grammar on the internet.

Apostrophes do NOT pluralize. It could say "# Fighter Units constructed"

Another thing is the inconsistent way in which ability enhancements are described (e.g. "resource gathering decreased by -5%") This double negative logically would mean that resource gathering is increased, but we know that's not the case.

A better way of saying this could be to replace "increased" and "decreased" with "modified" (e.g. "decreased by -5%" becomes "modified by -5%", which is much more logical)

These are not game-killers, but still annoying when you notice them.

There are ways to avoid the problem as jeep said. An apostrophe never pluralizes a word and it just strikes me as sloppy. With how often the game crashes there are bigger issues for them to deal with but it just strikes me as not caring about the product.

I also second changing how modifiers are presented. It could be clearer.

This is a fun game to play but really nothing to get wound up about it’s in the nature of any game (or application) which uses blocks of preset text that you get grammatical errors in relation to singular and plural. English being such a grammatically confused language with a high degree of irregular forms also doesn’t help.

By way of example we have
Children (plural child (singular)
Deer (singular and plural)
Dice (plural) die (singular)
Mice (plural) mouse (singular)

Then we have Latin plurals and English words which look like Latin forms lime referendum
Tautologies like Secret Ballot since ballot is a secret vote and does no need the adjective

Then there are the grammatical differences between US and UK usage to add even more to the fun.

To be honest we should give up on English and start using something sensible like Sanskrit or Palavi

To continue with the pedantry

The correct form would be “resource gatheringis decreased by -5%” and it’s not a double negative
The use of the Apostrophe is a declining and two generally in this position indicative of a contraction or of the possessive case

/pedantry

Can someone plz tell me how to discontinue a treaty that prevents me from colonizing planets when all other races are in an alliance so i cant seem to speak to any 1 particular race alone. Thx in advance!

Much better

This isn't the first time i've seen that exact same question asked...

And while I'm too lazy to go dig up the other examples, I believe they were done by you and almost as OT. Just open a thread (a single thread) about the question, don't spam it over 3/4s of the forum!
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i didnt think it as spamming if u said it once on 3 or four DIFFERENT forums but then im an internet noob

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Differen't sub forums, yes. Same general forum though.

And it doesn't help that you posted it in several places where it had no relationship to the thread in question.
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