[projectaon] Re: Minor Edits (Books 8-12)

  • From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:25:14 +0100

OToole L wrote: 

Do the Magicians actually own the Guild?

I've been trying to find an example from TMC to sway this argument either
way, but all I've managed to come up with is something which doesn't help.
Page 45 has three labels "GRAND MASTER'S CHAMBERS", "KAI MASTER'S CHAMBERS"
and "KAI MASTER'S HALL". Now while I'll go along with there only being one
Grand Master, the apostrophes in the second and third of these suggest that
there is only one Kai Master too. Thoughts?

I did alter all occurrences of 'Magician's Guild' to Magicians Guild and 'Thieves' Guild' to Thieves Guild in TMC, so you won't find instances in there, I'm afraid. Of course, if the word from on high is that "Magician's Guild" is accurate, everything will be fixed that way and uploaded ASAP.

Good call on the "Master's" bit. The "KAI MASTER'S" labels are obviously wrong, and I'll endeavour to correct them (though I won't bother outputting for just that . . . not this weekend, anyway). Should I leave GRAND MASTER'S alone, or would there be more than one Grand Master? After all, by the time the New Order comes around, there are many Grand Masters under Lone Wolf's tutelage.

My thoughts are that is a Guild of Magicians [plural] not a Guild belonging to Magicians [possessive], but there's no saying I'm right--being wrong is something I've learned to live with since joining PA! :-p

@ Tim: Strange that a Brit like myself should be championing a US style, but I think in this case the Americans got it right. The possessive apostrophe in such situations seems superfluous to me. Still, you learn something new every day! ^_^

You misspelt 'equipment' 15 times too! :-)

I got really worried for a second there (NOT MORE TYPOS!), but actually you're wrong. equipmnt refers to the name of the HTML file (equipmnt.htm) where the error occurs. All PA HTML pages have 8/3 filenames, and 'equipment' has 9 letters, so had to be shortened. So it ain't my mistake! Phew!

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Simon Osborne


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