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What.
Who are these asinine standards supposed to be helping?
@Nia, do as I've been told to do a few times. If someone attempts to incorrectly correct your already correct grammar, supply a link to a reputable grammar site in the comments. It's either that or sigh and roll over.
Here's the design, with irrelevant details cropped and the comments ordered chronologically, so they're easier to read:
Design #22971
Identity: Bodice Trade: Tailoring
References: bodice, corset
Components: 2x cloth
Additional Ingredients: 2x bone slice, 1x ngumasta, and 1x leather
Appearance:
a blood-red bodice corseted with whalebone
Dropped:
Its stiff structure intact, a corseted bodice lies here.
Examined:
[...] The front is smooth, while a column of lemniscate-shaped eyelets allow it to be secured at the back with a tight, brown leather cord.
Comments from the Trade Guild:
2016/09/29 17:43: You need a component for the bone. The appearance sounds like two items: a bodice and a corset. A collumn allows.
Me:
2016/09/29 18:31: Sorry about the bone, slipped my mind! I've added those in. I'd like to contest the 'collumn allows' correction, however. 'Column' is always spelled with one 'l', in both British and American spelling. I assume that the 'allows' comment refers to the singular/plural status? You may wish to read this, which explains the Grammar: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/is-pair-singular-or-plural Collective nouns can be both singular or plural, grammatically, depending on the focus of the subject. In this case, since it is the eyelet(s) that are acting upon the object (it, the bodice), not the column, it should be treated as a plural. Counter-intuitive, I know! It's a common confusion but please do read the link. I'm amenable to changing the appearance. What would you suggest? It is a corseted bodice, and can be probed as both a bodice and a corset, per the references. I'd have called it that, but wanted to emphasise the 'whalebone' part.
2016/09/29 18:33: See also: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/collectivenoun.htm
Comments from the Trade Guild:
2016/09/29 19:33: In the appearance, it sounds like two different objects. Yes, you can reference both bodice and corset, but try to make it clear like the dropped and examined are.
(Originally it was 'a blood-red bodice with a whalebone corset')
Me:
2016/09/29 19:56: Fixed.
Comments from the Trade Guild:
2016/09/30 17:55: Yes, collective nouns can be a difficult thing, however we strive for some consistency here, and thus trend towards singular verbs as the collective is being treated as a single entity (a pair of boots IS here, vs some boots ARE here -- a column allows, vs forming a column, things allow.). English is an inconsistent and subjective language in many instances, and there are grammatical rules that change depending upon nation and region, and formality of writing. This results in quite a bit of confusion, such as in this instance -- however, we try to find a middle ground to fall back to, and this is one of those cases, which can definitely be frustrating on both sides of that equation.
Sent By: (aetolia) on 9/30/2016/17:55
Your design #22971 has been automatically escalated to Becue due to a split vote.
There's correcting designs for quality-assurance — presumably, in order to preserve a level of literary integrity that the target market (text-game aficionados) are willing to becoming invested in and spend their money on — which I understand and agree with. Then there's this, which is knowingly enforcing rules that benefit literally nobody purely for the pointless sake of enforcing rules. Who does strict enforcement of incorrect style benefit? I think that's a question worth asking with any game regulation.
So, yeah, that's my main pet peeve so far.
Also, broken IRE apps. Not fun
Going to start doing everything I can to deny all arti whores everything.
Oh wait but I'm over 100 years old.
So of course it has to be a federal act.
It has to do with coloring and coding for the coloring and stuff.
Don't ask me.
Sent messages being counted in your message system also screws with my OCD, because A. They don't show up in the message box in-game when you do MSGS, and B. they STILL count towards that numerical system.
I'd say they need to either A. make sent messages visibile in-game when you check your messages, or B. give sent messages their own box. like SMSGS or something to check those.
Now, if they cana make it so I could just MESSAGES 1000 - and I could actually see the entire conversation play out back and forth
Btw MSG RENUMBER needs to be a thing.
I spent like 60 years in phase and now I get pounced on (verbally) every time I log on in the time it takes me to rephase.
For every other craft, if you want to do something that includes another piece, a broach on a cloak, a cape on a coat, a chair attached to your picnic-style table, whatever, you're allowed to add the commodities of the additional item to the one you're creating and do it, because freedom in crafting is super helpful when trying to be creative.
But not so with barding for some reason. Which makes even less sense because armor for animals doesn't actually give a mechanical bonus, so you can't even make the realism argument that gets made for forging stuff.
Is especially silly because you only get one sdesc modification, and if you have both and both would be visible, it would make sense to allow 'a caparison-draped mount with red armor' or something in that vein that showcases both as the displaydesc.
Not to mention not being able to include cloth in armor that -isn't- a caparison, but rather the base that the metal is attached to.