NationStates Jolt Archive

I noticed something else in "Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Autonomy."

1. "The government is too centralised," complains rural villager, Larry Hamilton. "We get these big-city politicians making rulings that effect our way of life, when they have absolutely no idea what our way of life is! One of them even suggested that farmers should be banned from picking crops in case they disturbed the local wildlife! What we need are various councils to govern their own part of @@NAME@@, giving us the chance to have our say on laws affecting our area. It'll bring politics to the people! Of course this will require the implementation of a council tax to fund it all, but if that's the cost of more political freedom, then so be it!"
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2. "Councils? Are you mad?" gasps political commentator, @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Most of the politicians we already have earn very large sums each year - and you want to employ even more?! We must not listen to the whims of some dangerous separatist movement, next they'll be wanting independence! I suggest we keep the government in one place where we can keep an eye on it and stop creating more jobs for over-paid politicians. Heck, why not trim off the ones we don't need while we're at it and give some leeway to the tax payers? Anyway, if we allowed places like West @@NAME@@ to make decisions for themselves, they would soon be introducing laws allowing them to marry their cousins or something - you know what they're like..."
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3. "These people are obviously power-hungry lunatics," whispers @@RANDOMNAME@@, one of your innumerable advisors. "They're simply trying to loosen your grip on the nation! Let's just send anyone who opposes your absolute rule to the gallows and ban elections. We hardly need them when you always know what to do! There may be some protest, but we can just lower taxes and they'll be as happy as clams."

In option 1 it should be "affect", not "effect."
I'm not sure if option 2 is an error. The issue mentions Southern @@NAME@@, not West @@NAME@@. There's also another error; the comma after "some dangerous separatist movement" should be a semicolon.

Also, from "Most Likely To Secede":

"Gov'mint's not workin' fo' folks 'round here," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, a turnip farmer, "We have ourselves a guar-un-teed right to form a gov'mint that works for us.

The comma should be a period; @@RANDOMNAME@@, a turnip farmer.

issue #130, Filibuster Bust-up

Filibuster Bust-up

The Issue
Several aged politicians have joined forces to filibuster a piece of majority-approved legislation to death. They've been orating non-stop throughout 3 days worth of debating time, stopping the legislation from being passed.

The Debate
"This sham of a tactic is totally demolishing our ability to accomplish anything!" complains Violet Li, Minister of Ministries. "Who cares if a few old fossils fail to see reason? The majority of the government clearly wants this legislature to pass! Just set a limit on the time a person can speak for; this really is demeaning to the democratic process!"
[Accept]


While taking a bathroom break before moving on to read aloud from the phonebook, Zeke Nagasawa states: "It is a great thing for the minority and the oppressed that our system of government allows the filibuster to be utilised to harness the majority! Let the hills, the mountains, and the valleys reverberate with the sounds of our voices! We will not surrender to this repugnant legislation."
[Accept]


"The filibuster is not enough to protect the minority, since they too afraid of the tyrannical majority to use it," says political commentator, Beth Trax. "I suggest that all legislation must require a unanimous vote before it can pass. That way, nobody goes away unhappy."
[Accept]


"Why do we need to debate legislature anyway?" questions Randy Summers, your Minister of Alternative Solutions, who also happens to be the best friend of your distant cousin. "Everything would be so much more simple if we just decide what to do, and do it. After all, we're the ones who know what's best for Decepti0n. If the minority parties want to say something, they can submit it in writing."
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in option three it says "...minority, since they too afraid of the tyrannical..."
[they too afraid]

thanks

I think it can't , because the macro just seems to add an 's' to the national animal name.


It does the same thing with currency too. I have a friend whose currencies always appear wrong, because he uses weights.
The currency:
ounce of fecal matter
gram of cocaine

appear as:
ounce of fecal matters
gram of cocaines

instead of:
ounces of fecal matter
grams of cocaine

"People reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, "The Daily Sacrifice" is a routine segment of morning news shows, and employers may fire workers without giving any reason."

Technically, "People reciting Shakespeare" is a singular subject.

"People reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, "The Daily Sacrifice" is a routine segment of morning news shows, and employers may fire workers without giving any reason."

Technically, "People reciting Shakespeare" is a singular subject.
No, people is plural, reciting Shakespeare is just describing the people.

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The period in the second last sentence should be a comma, and "please submit a getting help request" sounds very awkward...

I hope this is the right place for this:

From my nation's summary (which is of course generateed by my issue responses:

"There is no government in the normal sense the word"

should be:

"There is no government in the normal sense of the word"

Sorry, don't know what I was thinking.

In "Gunman Kills Three" (issue number 20) It says within the first option:

The community is united in grief ...



Thats how united is spelt...:?

Necoho the Doubter has become a gigantic dustbowl filled with tourists and mean desperados.,

The full stop is not needed, as the comma comes after wards, and it is not the last description.

Yes, it's being fixed.

In future, please post typos in the appropriate sticky.

Not really a spelling error, but shouldn't this one use @@CURRENCY@@, rather than dollars?

3. "Extraterrestrial lifeforms? Alien invaders? I don't know why we even have to listen to such idiocy!" complains prize-winning physicist @@RANDOMNAME@@, "The idea of 'aliens' on another planet is highly unlikely, and even if they did exist, getting from there to here is technically impossible! I say we forget this nonsense and stop spending our tax dollars on it. Leave this sort of foolishness to the people who attend those 'trekkie' conventions."

"This is terrific find!" claims Nukes4U CEO Clint Longfellow. "It will provide an enormous stimulus to our economy and create thousands of new jobs. It's win-win! All we need from the government is permission to bulldoze the rainforest that's on top of the deposit."

This is from the Uranium issue.

Missing an 'a' in "This is terrific find!".

Thanks for listening.

Just for future reference... report typos in the thread marked "New Issues: Report typos here".

3. "There's no need to be quite so dramatic," assures May Frederickson, your minister of Silly Walks as he pinwheels past. "We could let them have there way a little, just to keep them happy, you know? We could give them the right to vote, but not the right to run for office. Then we could just pick out the candidates we wanted and they could choose! We've been doing this for years, we don't want some uppity new bloke trying to tell us what to do."

The there should be spelled their.

I found the spoiler list of all issues and saved it to Word, so I could tick off each issue I encountered. Word showed me quite a few typos. Even omitting the ones that were deliberate for dialect or invented word, or the result of my Word being set for US English, there are more than 20 of them that I'm sure are typos. I would report them here, but I wonder if they have perhaps already been corrected in game play and the list simply hasn't been corrected. My computer is veryslow to open up these forum pages, so I can't go through 18 pages to see if they've already been reported. Should I post them here? :confused:

This one has no typos, but uses spellings particular to the British use of certain words. If you would like to remain consistent in your use of Americanized spelling in your issues then you would need to take the "o" out of "foetus" and "foetuses". However, I can understand how this would not be high on your list of things to do as mods.

I found the spoiler list of all issues and saved it to Word, so I could tick off each issue I encountered. Word showed me quite a few typos. Even omitting the ones that were deliberate for dialect or invented word, or the result of my Word being set for US English, there are more than 20 of them that I'm sure are typos. I would report them here, but I wonder if they have perhaps already been corrected in game play and the list simply hasn't been corrected. My computer is veryslow to open up these forum pages, so I can't go through 18 pages to see if they've already been reported. Should I post them here? :confused:



Hmm...I'm not sure..for now though, I would try and check a few against the actual issues and see if they have been repaired already.

Hi, you recently accepted my issue "Dangerously cheesy" but made several edits. One of which was changing mozzarella to 'wmsleydale'.
Seems a bit of a bizarre edit but I don't really care what cheese you use, however, it should be spelt 'wensleydale'.

What issue number is it?



Also, just a reminder to everyone to post the issue number with the typo

NOTE: since I'm not informed of when typos are fixed in issues, I do not update the issue list for fixed typos. Occasionally I may recreate the list from scratch, but think in terms of once a year or less ;)

The list of issues is so people can look through them when writing their own issues, satisfy their curiosity, whatever... A typo being present in the list says nothing about whether or not the typo still exists in the game. So please stick to reporting those typos you find in the game itself, not ones you may find in the list.

Ballotonia

What issue number is it?

I'm not sure, how do you tell?
I got the telegram yesterday saying it had been accepted.

The link in my issues pages ends with 'dilemma=189' - is that it?

I'm not sure, how do you tell?
I got the telegram yesterday saying it had been accepted.

The link in my issues pages ends with 'dilemma=189' - is that it?


Yep, that should be it I believe

In the third option of issue 126 someone says "Everytime." I don't think that's a real word.

In the second option of issue #158, "Regarding Robbers' Rights", the word "thieving" is misspelled "theiving".

Power Problems Need Bright Solution

3) "Now the way I see it is that it's either green, expensive, and sprawling; or compact, polluting and cheap. Wouldn't it be nice if we had the best of both worlds, well, we can!" claims fission technician Larry Gutenberg. "Nuclear power is reliable, clean and although it isn't cheap, it won't break the bank. There is a risk of deadly meltdown, but this is relativly (Should Be Realatively) small, and the only people who could be against this are anti-nuclear protesters, but what do we care about those tree-hugging hippies?"

In the second line of the first option of the issue Painful Prices Paid at the Pump, the issue states "Solving our energy needs are more important..."
This should be "Solving our energy needs is more important..." because "solving" is the subject.

#69 Power Problems Need Bright Solution

"Now the way I see it is that it's either green, expensive, and sprawling; or compact, polluting and cheap. Wouldn't it be nice if we had the best of both worlds, well, we can!" claims fission technician Tobias Barry. "Nuclear power is reliable, clean and although it isn't cheap, it won't break the bank. There is a risk of deadly meltdown, but this is relativly small, and the only people who could be against this are anti-nuclear protesters, but what do we care about those tree-hugging hippies?"

Relativly should be spelt as Relatively.

"Jong-Il" is a given name, not a family name. Koreans put their family name first and their given name second.

Not sure of the number, but:


"I agree with my friend here," says zealous lance-corporal @@Randomname@@. "But lets go further. Let's create a new anti-crime group with special training and expensive - er - extensive new equipment! That would make the criminals think twice before breaking the law! Especially if our new forces can shoot miscreants at first sight with out messing around with time-consuming trials."

Should it not be let's, as well as Lance-Corporal (capitalised). Or indeed, if it is a police issue, should it not be a police, not military, rank (i.e. Inspector, Superintendant, Constable, Sergeant, etc)?

Has this been reported yet?

@@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ Workers Strike!

Apparently it came to me as Gambling, but
There is a black market in Gambling

WHY WOULD THE BLACK MARKET REPORT ITSELF?


And at the same time: "Child Casino Shock" appears, almost as if Gambling is nothing wrong :confused:

Is this hijacking, because it is a typos thread?:confused:

Issue #129: Tribal troubles.
Firstly, the first option - 'We must protect cultures from damaging modern influence!'
This is kinda ambiguous - are the cultures damaging the modern influence, or is the modern influence damaging the cultures? This could be solved by saying instead 'We must protect cultures from our damaging modern influence!'
Also, second option - 'Medicine, education and modern wonders like the expresso machine!'
Expresso should be 'espresso'.

The effect of issue #103 "Plague Of The Hybrids!", option 3 is

"@@ANIMAL@@ populations thrive as dogs are slaughtered in their millions"

but should read

"@@ANIMAL@@ populations thrive as dogs are slaughtered in the millions"

The effect of issue #103 "Plague Of The Hybrids!", option 3 is

"@@ANIMAL@@ populations thrive as dogs are slaughtered in their millions"

but should read

"@@ANIMAL@@ populations thrive as dogs are slaughtered in the millions"
I'm fairly sure that 'their millions' is correct. 'The millions' is also correct, but it doesn't need to be changed.
http://nesworld.emuchrist.org/pics/grammar_nazi.jpg

'the police are tightening their grip on alcohol smugglers'

This was taken from another nation's description (so I couldn't say what the issue was, sorry). Nonetheless, it was the first line, and 'the' wasn't capitalised. If someone remembers which issue this is, could they say, and then I imagine it'd be fairly straightforward to fix?

This was taken from another nation's description so I'm not sure what issue number it is:

"the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal then most battlefields"

(should be "than")

I suspect it's the issue that asks for more budget for boot camp training...

After a series of bloody wars between the nations of Maxtopia and North Bigtopia, fights have broken out in the streets between immigrants in America of Tomorrow who came from the warring nations.

The Debate
1. "Foreigners are a major cause of civil disturbances," begins Violet King, whose opinions form the book '101 Arguments FOR Slavery'. "What we should do is make all immigrants, foreigners, and non-native America of Tomorrow folks slaves! I mean, who in America of Tomorrow wouldn't like a minority slave group to do his bidding? Imagine! People could be bought and sold over the Internet!"
[Accept]


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4. "It's not our war? It's not our war?" cries (in)famous America of Tomorrow-born fascist Hope Rubin. "Well maybe it's time it became our war! America of Tomorrow should take a more active, and by 'active' I mean 'hostile', role in international politics! This ethnic squabbling will be over when the war is over, and WE can end that war and purge the impure! Hard work pays off later, but laziness pays off now.! Sieg America of Tomorrow!"
[Accept]
Well, for one thing, periods always go within the quotation marks, no matter what. I'm pretty sure about that, anyway. And for that other option, I probably do not need to be telling you this, but I just thought it'd be funny to mention that the whole statement kinda contradicts my nation's slogan, and, well, the ending symbols or whatever they're called kind of clash. It's probably my fault. Maybe I need a new motto. Or maybe someone should think about it. I dunno.

Just letting you know that - especially that period/quotation grammatical error thing. Just a small detail, that's all :)

Well, for one thing, periods always go within the quotation marks, no matter what. I'm pretty sure about that, anyway. And for that other option, I probably do not need to be telling you this, but I just thought it'd be funny to mention that the whole statement kinda contradicts my nation's slogan, and, well, the ending symbols or whatever they're called kind of clash. It's probably my fault. Maybe I need a new motto. Or maybe someone should think about it. I dunno.

Just letting you know that - especially that period/quotation grammatical error thing. Just a small detail, that's all :)
If the title of the book is '101 Arguments FOR Slavery' (ie. with no full stop at the end), then to have the full stop outside the quotation marks is fine.
As for the motto thing, there are plenty of nations that have no punctuation in theirs, so it'd screw their option up. *shrug* That's the way it goes, I guess.

Well, it's good to know that. But I just remembered that book titles are either supposed to be italicized or underlined - not quoted - but whatever! LOL *is a grammar freak*



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2. "This is an unacceptable intrusion into the personal lives of the population," says Faith Winters while checking under your chair for bugs. "Just imagine all of the sensitive personal information that the police will pick up! Would you like someone listening to you calls to your mother or your lover? I think not! Laws should be passed so that the government and police can't stick their big noses where they're not wanted!"
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I think it should say "your" :) But maybe that's just me.
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Not a typographical error, but I guess putting it here makes sense.
3. "They're right, religion shouldn't have a role in our government, but they don't go far enough," says May Wong at a local AA (Atheists Anonymous) meeting. "Few things have caused more death and suffering in this world than religion. Just look at the Crusades and the Jihads throughout history! This should be treated like the mental disorder that it is. Remember, religion teaches intolerance, and we cannot accept that!"

Something or Another Anonymous groups are for people trying to get rid of a habit or belief. Not to endorse it. It would make more sense to be Religious Anonymous or something to that effect.

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"I'm not a criminal just because I'm seventeen!" shouts honors student, Pip Steele. "Yeah, I like to go out partying, but I'd never hurt anybody! Besides, we've already got enough problems with these pigs breathing down or necks. If anything we need MORE freedom. It's time for the government to step up to the plate and tell these power hungry swine to stop cramping our style!"
[Accept]
Should be "our."

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"We are the backbone of this country, and we demand a fair wage rise!" says union leader Pete Winters. "I don't think a 20% increase over two years is too much to ask. Unless the government forces employers to give us our due, we'll shut this whole industry down! Let's see how well America of Tomorrow's economy manages without any Information Technology, huh?
[Accept]

The ending quotation mark is missing. Small detail, I know. And, sorry if everything I mention has been mentioned before - after this I'll always double check anyway...

I don't remember which issue this was - it had something to do with complaints over the income tax level.
The result
and the government is reigning in public spending
should be spelled "reining".

#1: Where's the Love Gone?

Last night the respected tabloid TV show "60 Minutes" ran a report on Free Communist Party's rising divorce rate. What is happening to the nuclear family?

The Debate

"There's a simple solution," says Pastor Felix, of the Catholic Church. "Divorce should be illegal. 'For better or worse,' anyone remember how that goes? We should return to the good old days, when you got married for life and stuck by your partner no matter how much of a drunken, abusive, adulterating disappointment they turned out to be."
[Accept]

John Black, author of the hit book, 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Some Whole Other Place,' has a simpler solution. "If couples would just call each other 'darling' once in a while, there would be far fewer relationship breakdowns. A little affection is all it takes. So the government should make it mandatory: call your spouse 'darling' at least once a day, or face a fine."
[Accept]

"There's a simple way to boost the marriage rate," says gay rights activist Beth Clinton. "Abolish those arcane laws that discriminate against same-sex marriages. It's obscene to treat people differently because of their sexual preference. Besides, everyone knows gay relationships are more stable than straight ones."
[Accept]
The Government Position

The government has yet to formalize a position on this issue.

If you wish, you may simply dismiss this issue.


Not sure if this is intentional or not or counts as a typo, but there are no Catholic Pastors.

this typo was found by the founder of this thread three years ago, but it has not change

#111: Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy [Ceroo; ed:Sirocco]

The Issue
Politicians from a distant and obscure part of @@NAME@@ have been calling for the government to split @@NAME@@ into various semi-autonomous regions, each with an elected council to govern their designated area.

The Debate
1. "The government is too centralised," complains rural villager, @@RANDOMNAME@@. "We get these big-city politicians making rulings that effect our way of life, when they have absolutely no idea what our way of life is! One of them even suggested that farmers should be banned from picking crops in case they disturbed the local wildlife! What we need are various councils to govern their own part of @@NAME@@, giving us the chance to have our say on laws affecting our area. It'll bring politics to the people! Of course this will require the implementation of a council tax to fund it all, but if that's the cost of more political freedom, then so be it!"

2. "Councils? Are you mad?" gasps political commentator, @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Most of the politicians we already have earn very large sums each year - and you want to employ even more?! We must not listen to the whims of some dangerous separatist movement, next they'll be wanting independence! I suggest we keep the government in one place where we can keep an eye on it and stop creating more jobs for over-paid politicians. Heck, why not trim off the ones we don't need while we're at it and give some leeway to the tax payers? Anyway, if we allowed places like West @@NAME@@ to make decisions for themselves, they would soon be introducing laws allowing them to marry their cousins or something - you know what they're like..."

3. "These people are obviously power-hungry lunatics," whispers @@RANDOMNAME@@, one of your innumerable advisors. "They're simply trying to loosen your grip on the nation! Let's just send anyone who opposes your absolute rule to the gallows and ban elections. We hardly need them when you always know what to do! There may be some protest, but we can just lower taxes and they'll be as happy as clams."

is it South or West?

If the title of the book is '101 Arguments FOR Slavery' (ie. with no full stop at the end), then to have the full stop outside the quotation marks is fine.
As for the motto thing, there are plenty of nations that have no punctuation in theirs, so it'd screw their option up. *shrug* That's the way it goes, I guess.

actually in the United States periods and commas always go inside the quotation mark, while colons and semicolons always go outside, and sometimes question marks and exclamation points go inside and sometimes outside.

i believe in canada and great brittan punctuation always goes outside.

so it depends on your country of origin on whether or not that is a typo.

i wanna make a comment on the nuke issue, the one given on the first page: sb finds uranium in my country. in another thread by the mod (spiky or sth), he says that the choices in the issue should not be too obvious, the person shud think and there is no obvious rite or wrong... the third choice in this issue is like, mine some, leave the rest of the forest, sort of please-all choice. i hv been through several issues, nd this is the most mushy or soft choice i hv come across.

In issue "Ban The Burka?" (don't know where to find number)

First option:
Minister for Public Unity and General Goodwill, Freddy Christmas, has supported the claim, "This move will encourage students from different cultural and religious backgrounds to mix more freely. Removed of any symbols of difference, barriers of cultural otherness with be transcended and all will feel a sense of shared nationhood, which is what state schools should be encouraging. Social equality is what we're aiming for here. Not controversy."

I'm thinking it should be 'will be transcended'?

Also not sure if this was reported yet.

"[Name of Nation]'s Under Class Drowning in Debt"

Choice 3: "They're irresponsible with their money and yet they're the victims? Call me crazy but borrowing money and not paying it back isn't debt, it's theft!" scoffs Calvin O'Bannon, representitive of one of Evil Satanic OzMonkeys's largest lending firms. "What we really need is the power to send these parasites to debtor prisons, where they can work off the money they owe through hard manual labour."

mmkay, crazy but(t). *giggle, snigger, giggle, snigger, chuckle*

Not sure if this has been noticed, and is close enough to a typo. In issue 72 (I think), Widening Buttocks Cause Movie Theater Havoc:

"I don't see why it's anyone's business but my own how I kill myself," says Miranda Rifkin, a pleasantly plump computer programmer, stuffing a chili dog down his throat. "My weight is my own business, and if I don't feel like exercising, that's my choice. Sure, it'd be healthier to lose a few pounds, but my priorities lie elsewhere. Leave us alone, and we, the citizens of One-Ballia, will decide what's important to us and what we want to eat."

Odd name for a guy...

actually in the United States periods and commas always go inside the quotation mark, while colons and semicolons always go outside, and sometimes question marks and exclamation points go inside and sometimes outside.

i believe in canada and great brittan punctuation always goes outside.

so it depends on your country of origin on whether or not that is a typo.
The game's run by an Australian...

Am I the only person who finds this funny? A post about grammar having so many spelling and grammatical errors.

well, i dont know if this is reported yet, but
I'm not a criminal just because I'm seventeen!" shouts honors student, Buy Frederickson. "Yeah, I like to go out partying, but I'd never hurt anybody! Besides, we've already got enough problems with these pigs breathing down or necks. If anything we need MORE freedom. It's time for the government to step up to the plate and tell these power hungry swine to stop cramping our style!"
[Accept]
the or in this place is a wrong placement of a word that sounds the same, but means two different things: in this case it should be our necks, becouse the necks belong to the person talking and it is not this or that. (the second our is an example of a rightly placed one)

not really a typo ... more like a oddball

Cutting Off Sex Offenders?

"That psychopath should be castrated!" cries rape victim George W. Bush, "The agony he put me through must be punished with a means that will ensure that no human being will ever go through what I did! If castration is used more often in these cases you will see rape drop to nothing!"

hmmm :p ... shouldn't that be changed so is the same name allways instead of that males whims about being raped?

Grammatical error in #150: "Bug 'em All," Say Police [Niziania; ed:Sirocco]

"This is an unacceptable intrusion into the personal lives of the population," says George W. Chicago while checking under your chair for bugs. "Just imagine all of the sensitive personal information that the police will pick up! Would you like someone listening to you calls to your mother or your lover? I think not! Laws should be passed so that the government and police can't stick their big noses where they're not wanted!"

"you" needs to be "your"

I found this while looking through another nation's profile:

"referends are banned by law"

I found this while looking through another nation's profile:

"referends are banned by law"


#163: Referendums: Are they Right For @@NAME@@? [Ideal State; ed:Melkor Unchained]

The Issue
After the Parliament of @@NAME@@ recently passed a controversial law that polls have shown to be very unpopular with the public, a group of concerned citizens has called for mandatory referendums for all laws passed before the state.

The Debate
1. "We want real democracy, and we want it now!" proclaims @@RANDOMNAME@@, spokesperson for special interest group 'Direct Democracy Now!' "The fact that this latest law went through has proven that voting for a Parliament every four years is obviously not enough. Laws must be passed by the masses - that is the only way we can be sure that the will of the people is truly being enforced! We must have mandatory referendums for ALL new laws."

2. "Don't listen to these demagogues!" implores one of your top advisors, @@RANDOMNAME@@. "This is a ridiculous and dangerous idea! Referendums are costly and inefficient, and a direct threat to our fine institution that is the Parliament. What do you think we have the Parliament for anyway? Our citizenry nowadays don't know what's good for them. They're too busy milling around at the mall and buying sneakers WITH LIGHTS IN THEM. More control needs to be given to our qualified, intelligent--and most of all INFORMED--politicians." EDIT: This option's effect needs to be changed to "referenda"

3. "Referendums are a good idea in principle, but to make them mandatory for each and every law is simply impractical," states Political Scientist @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Representative democracy exists because direct democracy would never work in practice in a large society such as @@NAME@@. Just think of all the bureaucracy and expense that would go into it! I suggest that referendums be allowed, but only if at least a third of voters sign a petition requesting one. That should be a nice balance between democracy and practicality."

"This raises an interesting issue," says Anne-Marie McGuffin, your brother. "And that is: why do we need elections, anyway? Seems to me it would be much simpler if you just decided what was right, and did it. Wouldn't that save everyone a lot of time?"

Since when did Ann-Marie become a males name?

"This raises an interesting issue," says Anne-Marie McGuffin, your brother. "And that is: why do we need elections, anyway? Seems to me it would be much simpler if you just decided what was right, and did it. Wouldn't that save everyone a lot of time?"

Since when did Ann-Marie become a males name?
Most names in issues are generated randomly from a selection of first and last names.

There is a spelling mistake in one of the outcomes for Issue # 24. It's a funny one because it says the opposite of what it means.

#24: Budget Time: Accountants Excited

The Issue
It's time for the government to allocate spending for the coming year, and as always, special interest groups are keen to have their say.

The Debate
1. "The state of the education system is, in many areas, simply frightful," says Teachers Union leader @@RANDOMNAME@@. "And even where we are doing well, we could do better. I appeal to the authorities for a substantial boost in funding. Remember, the children are our future."

2. "We won't have a future unless we improve police numbers and rebuild the military," says General @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Oh, it's all well and good to have your fancy education and your nice cars, until some tinpot dictatorship decides to invade. And don't pretend like there aren't any of them in @@REGION@@. Our number one priority has to be security."

3. "Education is nice, but Health and Social Welfare are more important," says celebrity social worker @@RANDOMNAME@@. "This is where the people who really need government help are: the marginalized of our society. If we don't help them, what kind of a nation are we?"

4. "Hey, I've got a crazy idea," says noted libertarian and bird-watcher @@RANDOMNAME@@. "How about the government stops taking so much tax from people? Give us a tax cut and we'll buy the things we need ourselves. People need to be weaned off the government teat!"

If you choose option 4 you get the following outcome.

...the government is reigning in public spending...

This means the government is the king or queen of public spending.

The word should be reining, ie the government is pulling back on public spending.

I have just read the stickies about issues so hopefully I am not about to be shot down for this post..

For at least the last two months, I have been trying to choose options in issues that lower my nation's 100% tax rate, even at the obvious expense of other national factors (because I do get there has to be a negative somewhere else) but it just never budges no matter what I do.

So please Mods could we please have more new issues that give us the real option of lowering our tax rates should we choose them? I realize writing the new issues is a big job for you guys, so I don't expect this to happen overnight, but when you can would be great.

Thanks!

In "Police Want More Than Shiny Badge" I found this minor spelling mistake:

"I agree with my friend here," says zealous lance-corporal Roxanne Washington. "But lets go further. Let's create a new anti-crime group with special training and expensive - er - extensive new equipment! That would make the criminals think twice before breaking the law! Especially if our new forces can shoot miscreants at first sight with out messing around with time-consuming trials."

It should be "without", shouldn't it?

In the very first issue! Shame.


Should Democracy Be Compulsory?
The Issue
In response to a slow news week, certain highbrow newspapers have stirred up the debate over voluntary vs compulsory voting.
The Debate

2. "It's not contradictory at all," argues political commentator Clint Jefferson. "The fact is, if not everyone votes, the outcome isn't truly representative. Some groups--like elderly gun nuts--vote more often than others. That's why always we always end up with such terrible politicians."
[Accept]



Double always.

#142: Roads like Rollercoasters, Complain Motorists [Mirkai; ed:Sirocco]

This should be two words.

hello, i think there's some problem with this issue, don't know how give the number of these.

The CEO of Neil Le Grand software, hardware, and electronic headwear giant Microcosm, Inc. has been brought before the Supreme Court for violation of antitrust laws.
The Debate

1. "These allegations are absolutely ludicrous!" shouts Microcosm CEO Prudence Utopia from out the window of his 90-foot stretch limo. "Just because rival companies are incapable of producing products as brilliant as mine is no reason to punish ME! I say it's high time we abolish these idiotic antitrust laws and give big business the freedom to serve the public better. After all, I'm in this business for the people!"
[Accept]

2. "Microcosm must be shut down immediately," argues CEO of Computers, Computers, Computers! Clint Nagasawa from out the window of his clunky, exhaust-choked used car. "I can't get a foothold to compete in the market because those bigwigs in Microcosm have that foothold by the throat! It's high time the government stepped in and helped out the little man, and the best way to do that is to shut down the big, oppressive, corporate gurus in Microcosm and beyond."
[Accept]

3. "Verily, I say unto thee, none of this would have happened wouldst thou not have stopped the problem before thou didst start it," argues Brother Chastity Trax of the Neil Le Grand Amish community from out the window of his horse-drawn carriage. "We must doest as the Lord commandeth and abolishest the evils of computers and the Internet entirely. Only whenst we harken unto the Lord's commandments mayeth we truly be spiritually blessed."
[Accept]

Moreover, two prposition in favor and one against aren't equitable.

Sorry if these issue has already been reported, and for my english, i'm froggy :p

cya

hello, i think there's some problem with this issue, don't know how give the number of these.

Moreover, two prposition in favor and one against aren't equitable.

Sorry if these issue has already been reported, and for my english, i'm froggy :p

cya
Those 'mistakes' are meant to be 'olde English', and thus can be forgiven.

And you'll find that two for and one against or any other imbalance in propositions is fairly common here.

Auké thanks:)

...
4. "Everyone's got it all wrong," says Max Hanover, leader of the America of Tomorrow Libertarian Party. "We need the military now to support our economy but we can't let it get out of control. I say we we privatise it and divvy it up between several corporations, and make it self funding... it sounds radical but taxes will drop, the people will be happy, and we get to keep our military strength to show Johnny Foreigner what's what! Everyone wins! As long it's in the corporations' best interests to protect the country though, I suppose..."
[Accept]

Scratch the second "we."

Issue 157. It's not a typo in the issue itself, but rather, the change it makes to the nation's page. At the time of this writing, and probably not too long thereafter, you can see the typo on my region's page. It says ..the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal then most battlefields...
Then needs to be changed to than.

Issue 157. It's not a typo in the issue itself, but rather, the change it makes to the nation's page. At the time of this writing, and probably not too long thereafter, you can see the typo on my region's page. It says ..the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal then most battlefields...
Then needs to be changed to than.

That would be the following issue


#157: Sergeants Are Too Nasty, Say New Recruits [Mirkai; ed:Sirocco]

#157: Sergeants Are Too Nasty, Say New Recruits [Mirkai; ed:Sirocco]

The Issue
A haggard group of new recruits in @@NAME@@'s army have spoken out against the brutal conditions experienced in their military training.

The Debate
1. "It's atrocious!" wails Private @@RANDOMNAME@@, from amidst the cacophony of a parade cadence. "We're forced to sleep in crowded barracks, on hard cots, and do the most inhumane exercises when we wake up! Just today I've had to crawl through a muddy minefield, climb a grease-coated wall, and to top it all off, get mangled by an angry drill sergeant! All we want is a little respect from the officers - maybe to sleep in until noon, and not have to get all sweaty and tired doing stupid things like marching and climbing ropes. Oh, and private bedrooms too - we're risking our lives for the country, after all."

2. "THEY WANT WHAT?!" screams Sgt. Burkz, while pressing back a rising vein on her neck. "This is WAR, not DAYCARE! If anything, the training standards should be tougher! If I want to whip some pasty-faced, beer-gutted greenhorn because he can't climb over a razor-wire fence then I should be be given the permission to right away! The cry-babies won't like it, but they can run home back to their rich daddies if that's the way they're having it. War isn't a walk in the park, and training shouldn't be either. For all our sakes."

3. "Training, what a load of old hooey," says renowned spendophobe and radio announcer, @@RANDOMNAME@@. "The only thing it teaches our soldiers is how to shine boots and fight plastic dummies. We'd be better off if we just dropped them into the fight so they could learn to shoot for themselves. There might be a few accidents, but it'll be worth it for all the @@CURRENCY@@s we'll save."

4. "There is another way, you know..." whispers @@RANDOMNAME@@, the Chief of Secret Projects and Shiny Things in @@NAME@@'s military research department. "What if we started taking children and raising them from birth to fight? We'd be able to make them completely immune to propaganda, psychological warfare, and demoralisation. Not only would that stop the crying new recruits, it'd also give us a powerful military edge. People may not like giving up their kids, but that's why we run the country. We know better."


Effect of option 2

Issue 9: @@ANIMAL@@s on the Dinner Table?

I have found a possible bug rather than a typo, but this thread appeared to be the appropriate place to post. I apologise if I have made a mistake.

Choosing option 1 leads to the inclusion in the 3rd paragraph of a nation's description of "@@NAME@@'s national animal is the @@ANIMAL@@, which is also the nation's favorite main course". However, choosing a different option when subsequently refaced with the issue does not alter this description.

Of course, I could be wrong...

That's not a typo; it's a limitation of the code.

As this board is for 'sniggering at typos' I'll snigger at this one:

"Or how about we be candid AND have a secret police force," says Samuel Clinton your head spy from behind a newspaper with eyeholes cut out. "We could just reassign all the normal police into secret police. The beauty of it is that we won't have to bother solving crimes if it doesn't benefit the government! It's what we've always wanted! Not wha the people want of course, but if they complain we can just make them... disappear."

Wipe Out Graffiti? (the top sticky says it's #114)

"I don't see what's so bad," comments @@RANDOMNAME@@, a famous art critic. "This is urban art at it's finest. It's vibrant, colourful, and simply reeks of culture! Just look at the form displayed in this string of racist expletives! Wonderful. Simply wonderful. I think we should really be encouraging these budding Rembrandts, not putting them down! I say we legalise it, in the name of culture!"

There does not need to be an apostrophe.

From "Secret Police in @NATION@?":

# "Or how about we be candid AND have a secret police force," says Stephanie Dredd your head spy from behind a newspaper with eyeholes cut out. "We could just reassign all the normal police into secret police. The beauty of it is that we won't have to bother solving crimes if it doesn't benefit the government! It's what we've always wanted! Not wha the people want of course, but if they complain we can just make them... disappear."
Should be "what," right?

# "Perhaps there's a way to compromise,” says Randy Johnson, an amateur economist, philosopher and lepidopterist. "The problem here is that politicians could either be paid too little or too much. What if we paid them just right by paying them according to how well they do their job? Keep a close monitor on the needs of their constituencies and give bonuses for resolving problems and coming under budget. It gives them a proper monetary incentive to do their jobs. Some will have a harder time and others and the whole idea may be costly but if it cracks down on corruption I'm all for it.""Harder time than others," I think.

Watershed Down?
Government Acts
The Issue

An anonymous society of 'cinematic aficionados' have brought the debate over the proposed disposal of the watershed, the hour after which adult material is allowed to be shown on television, to your attention.
The Debate

1. "We don't need a watershed!" scoffs 'romantic-movie' buff, Roxanne Christmas. "I don't see why I should wait 'til way past midnight to watch my preferred film genre. It's high time that parents stopped treating their children like... well, children! If you sugar-coat these kids' lives, they'll just end up seeing everything through rose-tinted glasses - and we can't have a country filled with spoilt brats now, can we?"
[Accept]

2. "This is an endorsement of bad taste if ever I saw it," says Charles Longfellow, a child-care worker. "It's just wrong to subject children to graphic violence and nudity on afternoon television like this: who knows what it might possess them to do? We've all heard stories of kids who have seen some film where someone jumped off a cliff and then gone off to have a shot themselves. We must ban all violent and salacious material from our TV screens. If only to protect the innocence of our progeny!"
[Accept]


"Have" can be removed, but "a" needs to be removed because it makes it sound really goofy. Completely proper grammar would need you to keep the #2 paragraph past tense, keeping "shot" there.

;Or you can make it say this.

2. "This is an endorsement of bad taste if ever I saw it," says Charles Longfellow, a child-care worker. "It's just wrong to subject children to graphic violence and nudity on afternoon television like this: who knows what it might possess them to do? We've all heard stories of kids who have seen some film where someone jumped off a cliff and then gone off to shoot themselves. We must ban all violent and salacious material from our TV screens. If only to protect the innocence of our progeny!"
[Accept]

In this case, "have a shot" will be completely removed and replaced by "shoot"

2. "This is an endorsement of bad taste if ever I saw it," says Charles Longfellow, a child-care worker. "It's just wrong to subject children to graphic violence and nudity on afternoon television like this: who knows what it might possess them to do? We've all heard stories of kids who have seen some film where someone jumped off a cliff and then gone off to have a shot themselves. We must ban all violent and salacious material from our TV screens. If only to protect the innocence of our progeny!"

"Have" can be removed, but "a" needs to be removed because it makes it sound really goofy. Completely proper grammar would need you to keep the #2 paragraph past tense, keeping "shot" there.

;Or you can make it say this.

2. "This is an endorsement of bad taste if ever I saw it," says Charles Longfellow, a child-care worker. "It's just wrong to subject children to graphic violence and nudity on afternoon television like this: who knows what it might possess them to do? We've all heard stories of kids who have seen some film where someone jumped off a cliff and then gone off to shoot themselves. We must ban all violent and salacious material from our TV screens. If only to protect the innocence of our progeny!"
In this case, "have a shot" will be completely removed and replaced by "shoot"

No, "have a shot" is a perfectly valid English colloquialism... To have a shot at something is to have a go at it, to try it out... and in this context what the speaker clearly fears is that they might imitate the actions shown in those programmes.

No, "have a shot" is a perfectly valid English colloquialism... To have a shot at something is to have a go at it, to try it out... and in this context what the speaker clearly fears is that they might imitate the actions shown in those programmes.

Your right. Sorry for my mistake, I misread the context, then again it was late. :P It took me a minute to think about that. I see it means to have a shot at jumping off the cliffs themselves. Not shoot themselves. :P

My bad, and thanks for clarification.

"Bring Back Our Booze!" Cry Revellers
Government Acts
The Issue

Crowds of angrily sober sports fans and university students have petitioned the government to repeal the prohibition of alcohol.
The Debate

1. "Banning alcohol was the worst government decision ever made," says Prudence Hamilton, a former connoisseur of fine wines. "One can only drink grape juice for so long before one gets most awfully tired of it! Our society needs alcohol: it reduces inhibitions, dulls the pains of our modern existence and lets us all have a good time. Yes there are those who abuse it, but that's their choice. The government needs to start re-issuing liquor licences right away!"
[Accept]

2. "It's certainly not the choice of the victims of drink-driving!" retorts police chief Zeke Licorish. "Or the families torn apart by alcoholism! Banning it caused huge drops in violence, vehicle accidents and medical costs. How could any sane person want to re-legalise that poison? What we need is more money for the police so we can crack down on criminals smuggling in and selling alcohol and impose heavier penalties."

3. "In large amounts alcohol is damaging, but moderate amounts can actually be quite beneficial," says Dr. George W. King. "Like many other potentially harmful drugs, alcohol should available on prescription. Sure, it'll be more work for the health service, but I'm sure we can manage it... with a little extra funding."

licences --> licenses
drink-driving --> drunk-driving
re-legalise --> re-legalize

Those are all british spellings. They're fine.

I've fixed most of the things up to here in the thread.

Issus 212: Police Wanting Help With Their Inquiries

The third option:

3. "What about the victims of these crimes?" asks DI Beth Wong, ever gruff and stalwart in the face of adversity. "Do they not have rights? Their right to privacy's been violated so it ought to be the responsibility of the criminal to give up his own. What I propose is the collection of DNA samples from every citizen in Christtopia so we can track down the culprit if none of our suspects come up with anything. It'll be expensive, sure, there's 36 million people to go through... but it's just a small blood sample. Don't you think it's worth it?"

Should be:

3. "What about the victims of these crimes?" asks DI Beth Wong, ever gruff and stalwart in the face of adversity. "Do they not have rights? Their right to privacy's been violated so it ought to be the responsibility of the criminal to give up his own. What I propose is the collection of DNA samples from every citizen in Christtopia so we can track down the culprit if none of our suspects comes up with anything. It'll be expensive, sure, there's 36 million people to go through... but it's just a small blood sample. Don't you think it's worth it?"

None is a contraction of 'not one,' so the singular should be used.

Issus 212: Police Wanting Help With Their Inquiries

The third option:

3. "What about the victims of these crimes?" asks DI Beth Wong, ever gruff and stalwart in the face of adversity. "Do they not have rights? Their right to privacy's been violated so it ought to be the responsibility of the criminal to give up his own. What I propose is the collection of DNA samples from every citizen in Christtopia so we can track down the culprit if none of our suspects come up with anything. It'll be expensive, sure, there's 36 million people to go through... but it's just a small blood sample. Don't you think it's worth it?"

Should be:

3. "What about the victims of these crimes?" asks DI Beth Wong, ever gruff and stalwart in the face of adversity. "Do they not have rights? Their right to privacy's been violated so it ought to be the responsibility of the criminal to give up his own. What I propose is the collection of DNA samples from every citizen in Christtopia so we can track down the culprit if none of our suspects comes up with anything. It'll be expensive, sure, there's 36 million people to go through... but it's just a small blood sample. Don't you think it's worth it?"

None is a contraction of 'not one,' so the singular should be used.
I think that's actually just a difference between American English and UK/Rest of World English. The original wording is correct in UK/RoW English.

No it's not. Irrelevant of where you're from, (I'm from the UK) none is a contraction of not one; any good dictionary will tell you that.

Main Entry: 1none
Pronunciation: 'n&n
Function: pronoun, singular or plural in construction
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English nAn, from ne not + An one -- more at NO, ONE
1 : not any
2 : not one : NOBODY
3 : not any such thing or person
4 : no part : NOTHINGOkay, if you go back 900 years, it's a contraction between two words. Otherwise, it's a single word. And, as you can clearly see, it can be singular.

Even if contexts have shifted over the years, what Howarduphone pointed out is still a contraction of 'not one,' even if none does have other meanings now.

Even if contexts have shifted over the years, what Howarduphone pointed out is still a contraction of 'not one,' even if none does have other meanings now.
No it isn't. As we have already established (see the dictionary definition that Hack posted) 'none' can be used as both singular and plural, depending on context. Therefore, both "...if none of our suspect come..." and "...if none of our suspect comes..." are correct, and Howarduphone is incorrect in saying that the former "should" in fact be changed to the latter. "Could" would be more accurate, but then I don't imagine those who code the issues are actually going to bother changing something that is correct to something that is equally correct.

Would that be if none of our suspects came?

In the case Howarduphone gave what is being said is 'if not one of our suspects...' not 'if not any of our suspects...' I thought the admins would be interested in looking correct as opposed to looking like imbeciles, although that boat has sailed, thinking Webster's is a real dictionary... hah, Americans writing dictionaries, what will they think of next?

In the case Howarduphone gave what is being said is 'if not one of our suspects...' not 'if not any of our suspects...' I thought the admins would be interested in looking correct as opposed to looking like imbeciles, although that boat has sailed, thinking Webster's is a real dictionary... hah, Americans writing dictionaries, what will they think of next?
Apologies...

none

• pronoun 1 not any. 2 no one.

• adverb (none the) with comparative by no amount: none the wiser.

— USAGE Some traditionalists maintain that none can only take a singular verb (as in none of them is coming tonight rather than none of them are coming tonight). However, none is descended from Old English nan meaning ‘not one’, and has been used for around a thousand years with either a singular or a plural verb, depending on the context and the emphasis needed.

— ORIGIN Old English.
So that would mean that in the case Howarduphone gave, what is being said is:
either "not one"
or "not any"

From an English dictionary. Which, in fact, doesn't give "not one" as a specific definition of "none".

But say it out loud, 'not any of our suspects come,' makes no sense.

But say it out loud, 'not any of our suspects come,' makes no sense.
Not just like that, maybe not.

But as "What I propose is the collection of DNA samples from every citizen in Christtopia so we can track down the culprit if not any of our suspects come up with anything", it does make sense.

However, that wasn't your original point. Your original point, in case you'd forgotten (seeing as you now seem to have abandoned it) is that you were concerned that the admin of this site were making themselves looking like imbeciles, and that American dictionaries are inherently incorrect. You seem to have overlooked all that once I pointed out that an English dictionary not only agreed but actually tightened the usage of "none" to seemingly exclude the precise usage you were proclaiming as correct...

Forgive me for being a tad confused.

I think after one thousand years of use, and the blessing of the OED, using 'none' in that fashion is perfectly acceptable. We're not talking about people using "irregardless", after all. We've all had plenty of time to get used to this change.

And, well, your absurd jingoism is soundly ignored, as the editor of that issue was not, in fact, American.

But ...

(No, there isn't a "but", I just wanted to make Hack shudder at the thought of another round of Ardchoillean nitpicking.)

Consider that "none" is a sort of collective noun (an excluding noun, maybe). Collective nouns make sub-editors hide under tables. British usage and Australian usage differ. Parliament was sitting in Australia at the same time as Parliament were sitting in the UK. Usage differs with context, too -- the team was chucked out of a nightclub on the news pages, but the team were attending practice on the sports pages. And the gods know what the New Zilenduhs do to collective nouns. Or the Canadians, eh. Or the Indians, or the Jamaicans, or the other sensible cricket-playing nations.

So generally NS, as a dominantly Anglophone community, goes with usage. And if usage says something you disagree with, no matter how much you stab it with your steely grammarian knives, you just won't kill the beast.

the team was chucked out of a nightclub on the news pages, but the team were attending practice on the sports pages.That's just a single collective action verses a series of individual actions taken by said collective.

Sigh.

English is such a stupidly, needlessly, and excessively complicated language.

That's just a single collective action verses a series of individual actions taken by said collective.

Sigh.

English is such a stupidly, needlessly, and excessively complicated language.
And in case you needed further proof...did you really need that Oxford comma? ;)

Yes. Yes I did.

And in case you needed further proof...did you really need that Oxford comma? ;)
As Max likes to point out, "I'd like to thank my parents, God and Mary." That "Oxford comma", as you call it, disambiguates some statements, even if it's not proper non-US English.

As Max likes to point out, "I'd like to thank my parents, God and Mary." That "Oxford comma", as you call it, disambiguates some statements, even if it's not proper non-US English.
It disambiguates some statements, but not the one that Hack wrote. Which, amusingly (IMO), just adds more weight to his statement.

It disambiguates some statements, but not the one that Hack wrote. Which, amusingly (IMO), just adds more weight to his statement.

You don't get to quibble over semantics with grammar like that. Your first comma is inappropriate, since the phrase after "but" does not form a compound sentence. Your first period (full stop) should be a comma, since what follows is not a complete sentence.

You don't get to quibble over semantics with grammar like that. Your first comma is inappropriate, since the phrase after "but" does not form a compound sentence. Your first period (full stop) should be a comma, since what follows is not a complete sentence.
On this forum my grammar usage does not make me any less qualified to quibble. Entire debates on General are held (though 'waged' might be a better term) between posters who can't grasp basics.

That aside, you may be right on the first point. However, the second sentence is an aside and therefore can be seen as a sentence in its own right.

I didn't say you weren't allowed to debate if your grammar was flawed. The point was that perhaps it isn't the best idea to use sentence fragments to criticize someone else's (acceptable) grammar. It doesn't give your arguments much weight.

After a recent high-profile case of a minority student being refused admission to a traditional, prestigous college, civil rights activists, conservatives, and teachers are up in arms about affirmative action and ethnic equality in education.

This is from the Affirmative Action issue.

prestigous should be prestigious.

:confused: II'm not sure if its submited yet because im too lazy.:eek:

Fixed.

Issue 209: Students Demand Financial Aid

Last sentence of option 3:

Admittedly, some may still not be able to afford it but here's no pleasing some people.

I'm guessing that's meant to be "there's".

Me too.

I noticed, not quite a typo in an issue today, but still an error that should be corrected. It's in the Appointment Of Spiritual Advisor issue. Before the issue is decided, the first option has the name of the person as "Catholic Archbishop Roxanne Barry" but after I selected this option, the name changes to "Catholic Archbishop George W. Christmas"

I don't know if I appointed Roxanne, which is an interesting name for an archbishop, or George. :)

That's not a bug. The names are randomly generated every time the page loads.

Issue 218: Two Mommies One Too Many?

1. "I cannot understand for the life of me why anyone could possibly be against this," complains Jacob Kantelberg, showing up at your office wearing a pink feather boa. "Bart and I are good and caring people and will make excellent fathers, so what's the problem? All of the scientific studies have shown that there's no difference in the wellbeing of children raised by gay and straight couples.

I think it must be well-being.

"This just doesn't go far enough in my opinion," grumbles Melbourne Rubin an ardent opponent to homosexuality. "The more concessions we give these people, the more they'll reduce our nation to the most embarrassing gayfest of all 404 Region Not Found! We'll be a joke! Homosexuality is a sin, and not only that it's a disease of society and there's no two ways about it. It must be criminalised and those responsible hanged just like in the good old days."

Granted, I'm a nitpicking little turd, but the bolded parts are comma-deficient.

In the first part, the comma should go after the name, in this case Melbourne Rubin.

In the second part, commas should be put after "not only that" and "disease of society."

Yes, yes, I'm a bit of a comma addict.

My initial reaction at reading that whole issue was absolute horror. I'll have a little chat with Sirocco about it....

Shameful typo in one of my own issues.

@title: Carjacking Concerns

Third option reads "Except from people who live outside major cities", should be 'Except for'.

Also after re-reading it, the automobile industry modifier I put on it is probably a bit extreme, since they'd still be producing automobiles, just not private cars.

#222: Terrorists Strike City Centre
At the end of option 2.: "Remember, to prevent is better that to cure."
Should be "than".

Ballotonia

Fairwell, dear typo thread, you have served us well. We consign you to the great editor's wastepaper basket in the sky.

*salutes*