[quote name="Sylvandyr" date=2015-08-12 08:35:31]
Something like "no flight will receive that single slot's bonuses" should work. Adds one word and is clearer, to me. (Though I read it correctly anyway. But it's harder to skim past the word "single" I think. But it could also be misread as "no flight will receive a single bonus" I guess, so that's a problem too. Eh.)
"No flight will receive a bonus for the slot that was taken" flows slightly rougher and makes you pause to read it and understand it. I think that would be better wording.
In the end I think the current syntax is clear, but it doesn't account for how smoothly reading it (and therefore skimming it) flows, which leads to easily misconstrued meaning. The stresses in the syllables pretty much go straight ahead and just lull you into reading fast, whereas the second suggestion I listed breaks up the syllable stresses and slows you down.
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Never mind the linguist in the corner here having a little word-gasm over @Sylvandyr's explanation.
Sylvandyr wrote on 2015-08-12:
Something like "no flight will receive that single slot's bonuses" should work. Adds one word and is clearer, to me. (Though I read it correctly anyway. But it's harder to skim past the word "single" I think. But it could also be misread as "no flight will receive a single bonus" I guess, so that's a problem too. Eh.)
"No flight will receive a bonus for the slot that was taken" flows slightly rougher and makes you pause to read it and understand it. I think that would be better wording.
In the end I think the current syntax is clear, but it doesn't account for how smoothly reading it (and therefore skimming it) flows, which leads to easily misconstrued meaning. The stresses in the syllables pretty much go straight ahead and just lull you into reading fast, whereas the second suggestion I listed breaks up the syllable stresses and slows you down.
Never mind the linguist in the corner here having a little word-gasm over @
Sylvandyr's explanation.
@
Arekuru
i can just imagine the commentators on dragon tv while the other flights watch from their territories in amusement!
@
Arekuru
i can just imagine the commentators on dragon tv while the other flights watch from their territories in amusement!
I have so much fodder in my lair.
To hold 'em until the last few days. Or dump them all into the raffle now. Decisions, decisions.
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I have so much fodder in my lair.
To hold 'em until the last few days. Or dump them all into the raffle now. Decisions, decisions.
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Waheyyyyyyyy!
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Waheyyyyyyyy!
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SHINE ON ACOLIGHTS!
MAKE THEM WILT!
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Nature will prevail!
Nature will prevail!
Not afraid of some sunshine!
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Not afraid of some sunshine!
Seems like it's time for another Glitterbomb. Stay fabulous!
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Seems like it's time for another Glitterbomb. Stay fabulous!
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even on the sunniest of days, nature will always stand tall and strong!!!
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light may come and go... but the trees are always here to stay!
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