Shadowlands Typo & Grammatical Error Megathread

I have a screen shot of this but can’t figure out how to attach it. In a lv 60 DH’s Adventure Guide, under Powers, when you hover over Darkglare Medallion, the DH sees “Source: Dungone Drop…”

My non-DH friend looking at the same thing both saw that error and didn’t see the “Eye Beam” part of the power’s description before the 20% cooldown.

Achievement name:
Hooked On Hydroponics
Dialog:
Defeat Ingra Maloch after defeating an Overgrown Hydra on in the Mists of Tirna Scithe on Mythic difficulty.

Wasn’t an English major, but I believe that’s a grammar error.

This should also read “into jewelry” rather than “in to jewelry”

Actually I am fine with the phrasing as is, as “the Maw Walker and I” is equivalent to “us”, as is “the Maw Walker and me”. Gaviin, I gave you an thumbs up on your less/fewer post - one of my pet peeves. Let’s remember also that most of us are not “pure” English speakers - for myself I cringe every time I hear something like “woman senator” or “woman doctor”. Technically, “woman” is not an adjective. American English is dynamic and it’s at least as important to be understood as it is to be correct.

In fact, “the Maw Walker and I” would be equivalent to “we”, which would make the sentence in question translate into “Theotar, join we.” I hope we can agree that this is not correct. :slight_smile: “The Maw Walker and me” is what is equivalent to “us”, which is the point of my initial feedback.

I understand that language is dynamic over time, but I’m not of the mind that this gives carte blanche to use whatever one thinks sounds OK and state that it’s correct/acceptable. That runs counter to the whole concept of grammar. It’s fine if people want to be lax with English on their own, but if so, maybe threads like this aren’t the place for them.

And totally understood that not everyone is an English major or native speaker. Nothing wrong with that at all. Again, perhaps in those cases, folks should err on the side of hanging back and reading instead of disputing valid feedback and corrections.

As for the “woman” thing, I agree it’s awkward as an adjective and shouldn’t be encouraged. Unfortunately I believe some dictionaries have caved and labeled it as an adjective – one example of grammar “evolving” in not so great directions. :slight_smile: Regardless, we certainly share the less/fewer pet peeve! :wink:

Alayea I read the quoted error text as “There will be many challenges…”. You are so right that there is a missing “be” that my mind supplied. I did not even see that it was not there.

Nope, just not reading it that way.

  • We is a subject pronoun, which means it is used as the subject of sentences.
  • Us is an object pronoun; it is used as an object in sentences.

Join us (objective form)

Yes, that’s… what I’ve been trying to express.

Point is, I and we (along with he, she, they, etc.) are subject pronouns, which is why you would not use them as the object of a sentence like this. You would only use object pronouns, such as us, him, her, or me. Join him and her. Join them. Join us. Join Bob and me. Etc. etc. etc.

Hope this clarifies.

Daily quest in Revendreth “Overdue Purging”

“… a souls burdens…” should be soul’s

Angelic Feather (item ID 184227). Sold by Ta’tru in Revendreth. Item text:

Use: Increase a mortals Agility by 10 for 1 min.

Should be “a mortal’s Agility”.

Date: 12/29/2020

Quest: Trading Favors: Necrotic Wake

Description: In the quest objectives, there is a typo.

Actual: “Obtain Nalthor’s Phlactory Instructions from…”
Expected: “Obtain Nalthor’s Phylactery Instructions from…”

Reason: “Phylactery” is misspelled. The name of the item to which it refers is spelled correctly (“Nalthor’s Phylactery Instructions”, item ID 178577) and can be used as a reference.

The progress text for “The Many Sins of Kael’thas Sunstrider” says the ritual is called “the ritual of inquisition” but the quest objective reads “begin the ritual of absolution”

during “There’s Always a Paper Trail”, what the text says Kael’thas says after reading the Orders is not what he says voice acting

You are technically correct. I believe a convention in language may be technically incorrect and still be acceptable (such as “the Maw Walker and I” as it was used or “woman doctor”) which is why I originally stated both are acceptable. I wouldn’t use it myself nor would I “correct” someone else’s usage because I know it is a convention. A lot of these are regional, generational, etc. As long as communication and understanding have occurred I’m good with it. Besides, we are talking about General Draven, are we not? Having a hard time picturing him in a classroom learning the finer points of grammar.

So, you wouldn’t change “me not that kind of Orc”, would you? :smile:

Have a bug where when I login I’m unable to complete any of my current quests, have to abandon and redo the quests again.

Grandmaster Vole at the Theater of Pain (non-instanced)
He’ll say " I can’t believe their trying this strategy! When has this ever worked?"
Obviously supposed to be ‘they’re’ not ‘their’

The “Songwood Graft” item has a grammar mistake in its tooltip. The word “from” should likely be between “wood” and “mature.”

Date: 12/30/2020

Quest: Acid Reflux

Description: The quest item’s tooltip (on Gormherd Branch) has a typo. The ellipsis has 4 dots instead of 3. Ellipses should have 3 dots.

? It’d like you didn’t even attempt to read the title of this thread

Hah, no, indeed I would not change that. :slight_smile: It’s a clearly intentional stylistic/character choice. I would not put Draven’s single misuse of a pronoun in the same category, especially considering it is a common real world mistake and was, to me, pretty clearly not intended to convey some trait or quality about the character. Even if he is a stone legion dude in a fantasy game, he still seems pretty well spoken to me. :slight_smile:

Besides, you could say that virtually no character in WoW (or most games) would ever be “in a classroom learning the finer points of grammar”. I don’t think that’s a legitimate reason to throw correct use of language out the window. In the absence of a clear, conscious design choice, I believe it’s best to use proper grammar. And this seems to be Blizzard’s intent, otherwise why would they open a thread like this asking people to report errors?

As for the use of “and I” in the object of sentences being a “convention”, I’m not sure I agree with that. It’s a very common mistake. This is anecdotal, but I’ve noticed it becoming more widespread over time ever since the push that started a few decades back to correct people from using “and me” in the subject of sentences (e.g., “Bob and me are going to the store”). That has been rightly corrected to “Bob and I” and drilled into people’s minds with such regularity that I think a lot of folks just began to instinctively believe that “and me” is NEVER correct and started to use “and I” in all cases. The underlying rules and distinction between subject and object pronoun use never sank in (or were never taught/stressed), and now here we are.

I can certainly understand generally not being concerned about grammatical rules and just focusing on whether ideas are communicated “well enough”. But then I’d come back to wondering why you would want to participate in the grammatical side of this particular thread. Also, I’d argue that the less vs. fewer thing falls into the same category of improper grammar but still reasonably understandable. So I’m curious what makes that an error that is worthy of correction but not something like subject vs. object pronoun usage.

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