Conquer Club

• When things aren’t more than one, don’t use plural tenses of words.

• When deploying 1 troop in a game, have the game log say that you deployed 1 troop instead of 1 troops.

• It will look less silly

mrswdk wrote:The poor grammar in this suggestion is super ironic.

chapcrap wrote:

mrswdk wrote:The poor grammar in this suggestion is super ironic.

As part of the implementation, I suggest that mrswdk be made chief in charge of site grammar.

Even the deepest-seeming change – to the grammar – never destroys the language system. Some distinctions can disappear: classical Arabic has singular, dual and plural number; the modern dialects mostly use just singular and plural, like English. Latin was full of cases; its daughter languages – French, Spanish and so on – lack them, but their speakers get on with life just the same. Sometimes languages get more complex: the Romance languages also pressed freestanding Latin words into service until they wore down and became mere endings on verbs. That turned out OK, too.

Doc_Brown wrote:If there were another chapcrap, would there be two chapscrap, or two chapcraps?

Dukasaur wrote:https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-might-be-the-optimal-self-regulating-system

Even the deepest-seeming change – to the grammar – never destroys the language system. Some distinctions can disappear: classical Arabic has singular, dual and plural number; the modern dialects mostly use just singular and plural, like English. Latin was full of cases; its daughter languages – French, Spanish and so on – lack them, but their speakers get on with life just the same. Sometimes languages get more complex: the Romance languages also pressed freestanding Latin words into service until they wore down and became mere endings on verbs. That turned out OK, too.

mrswdk wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-might-be-the-optimal-self-regulating-system

Even the deepest-seeming change – to the grammar – never destroys the language system. Some distinctions can disappear: classical Arabic has singular, dual and plural number; the modern dialects mostly use just singular and plural, like English. Latin was full of cases; its daughter languages – French, Spanish and so on – lack them, but their speakers get on with life just the same. Sometimes languages get more complex: the Romance languages also pressed freestanding Latin words into service until they wore down and became mere endings on verbs. That turned out OK, too.

Chinese doesn't really use the plural at all. One dog, two dog, three dog, four dog. Works fine.

tfh182 wrote:Grammar is important. I do think that we need to have a gramatarian. I also suggest that some one should check on the game chats and if a player has misspelled a word or not used a comma or period when needed they should be punished. I am not saying that they should be beaten but a good hard spanking makes sense.

Dukasaur wrote:

mrswdk wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-might-be-the-optimal-self-regulating-system

Even the deepest-seeming change – to the grammar – never destroys the language system. Some distinctions can disappear: classical Arabic has singular, dual and plural number; the modern dialects mostly use just singular and plural, like English. Latin was full of cases; its daughter languages – French, Spanish and so on – lack them, but their speakers get on with life just the same. Sometimes languages get more complex: the Romance languages also pressed freestanding Latin words into service until they wore down and became mere endings on verbs. That turned out OK, too.

Chinese doesn't really use the plural at all. One dog, two dog, three dog, four dog. Works fine.

Sound like Dr. Seuss.

One dog, two dog, three dog, more, waiter!

mrswdk wrote:The poor grammar in this suggestion is super ironic.

demonfork wrote:

mrswdk wrote:The poor grammar in this suggestion is super ironic.

This is not really an example of irony. It's more hypocritical that the OP would suggest that others use proper grammar when he can't even do so himself.


Irony is when the intended meaning is the exact opposite of the literal meaning or a rhetorical device that is characterized by incongruity in the real situation and what is expected


Example:

You suggest to a sick friend that a particular remedy will make him well again but it kills him instead.

demonfork wrote:

mrswdk wrote:The poor grammar in this suggestion is super ironic.

This is not really an example of irony. It's more hypocritical that the OP would suggest that others use proper grammar when he can't even do so himself.