Guild Wars 2

Watching the last WP video, he was going through the Bastion of the Penitent raid for story bits and reading a book dialog popup he came across the following dialog:

“An old, tattered book, assumedly from the prison library.”

I’m not a teacher or a grammar stickler, but for some reason it jumped out at me. “Assumedly” is not a word. It’s probably because WP read it out loud.

It should be “assumably” or better yet “presumably” for it to mean what it was meant in context.

My daughter wants to go into game design as a writer and narrative designer and after pausing the video, I used this as a teaching moment for her, that even big companies with large budgets can make mistakes, and why proof reading your work is important.

All this to say, I’m curious about the process of writing these small bits of dialogue.

Also, what other weird bits have people seen in the dialogue throughout the game?

assumedly is a word. google searched it, and came up with quite a few dictionary websites listing it:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/assumedly
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/assumedly
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/assumedly
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/assumedly
http://www.yourdictionary.com/assumedly
http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Assumedly

All those words, presumably, assumably, assumedly are close enough in meaning that they could all be used in that sentence. The difference, at best, would be the level of precision or what one might want to imply.

what about “allegedly”? you can see it everyday in newspapers.

vicious.5683:

what about “allegedly”? you can see it everyday in newspapers.

“Allegedly” refers to an accusation.

“Presumably” is closer to what we’d use in modern English. “Assumedly” sounds (and looks) weird, so I wouldn’t choose it as a writer or an editor unless I wanted to make the speaker sound ‘fussy’ in a bad way.

It’s worth including as an in-game /bug report, to give the devs a chance to review. They’ll queue it up with a bunch of other text issues and decide which are worth re-writing and re-translating.

(It’s a good teaching moment regardless of what happens — sometimes business needs trump good editing, too.)

Do you not have internet access, OP?

This sort of thing really rattles my cage. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen corrections on stuff that was perfectly correct. Back in my retail days, I used to put up signs on the store window that said, Help Wanted – Enquire Within because I knew some people would try to correct me, and say inquire was correct. Enquire was also correct.

People who questioned it had more of a chance of getting a job, because it showed they weren’t scared to think and challenge, but when you’re sitting at home on a computer, there’s no reason to say something is not a word when it is.

A simple google check would have gone a long way.

OP is sort of right.

Assumedly may be a word (admittedly one the forum dictionary is unaware of), but in that sentence, it comes across as awkward simply because it’s not a word in common use. Therefore I’d recommend "presumably", given it more accurately reflects what the sentence is trying to convey, and wouldn’t cause any head scratching.

Ceridwen.6703:

OP is sort of right.

Assumedly may be a word (admittedly one the forum dictionary is unaware of), but in that sentence, it comes across as awkward simply because it’s not a word in common use. Therefore I’d recommend “presumably”, given it more accurately reflects what the sentence is trying to convey, and wouldn’t cause any head scratching.

Not in common use in our universe, does not exclude it from the game universe.

Bookah isn’t even a real word for us, yet for asura it certainly is.

TexZero.7910:

Ceridwen.6703:

OP is sort of right.

Assumedly may be a word (admittedly one the forum dictionary is unaware of), but in that sentence, it comes across as awkward simply because it’s not a word in common use. Therefore I’d recommend “presumably”, given it more accurately reflects what the sentence is trying to convey, and wouldn’t cause any head scratching.

Not in common use in our universe, does not exclude it from the game universe.

Bookah isn’t even a real word for us, yet for asura it certainly is.

I call people Bookah in real life, just to confuse them.

Well, irregardless (one of my pet peeves) is not supposed to be a word. And don’t get me started on literally.

notebene.3190:

Well, irregardless (one of my pet peeves) is not supposed to be a word. And don’t get me started on literally.

English is a live language. It is not a tame language, as was written down in the books already decades out of date that your teachers used to tell you what the “one true way” of the language was.

It will have dialects, it will evolve, it will change the meaning of words, it will simplify and gain complexity. This is unavoidable.

You can either accept it, or you can stand on the beach shouting at the ocean, “no, you may not come in, I refuse you.” Whatever makes you happy, I guess.

It was so much easier when I only had to worry about one set of colloquialisms (ie. my own).

SlippyCheeze.5483:

You can either accept it, or you can stand on the beach shouting at the ocean, “no, you may not come in, I refuse you.” Whatever makes you happy, I guess.

That’s a little too close to current political climates there =P

Rashagar.8349:

That’s a little too close to current political climates there =P

For some reason, the phrase slippery slope popped in my head.

Rashagar.8349:

It was so much easier when I only had to worry about one set of colloquialisms (ie. my own).

SlippyCheeze.5483:

You can either accept it, or you can stand on the beach shouting at the ocean, “no, you may not come in, I refuse you.” Whatever makes you happy, I guess.

That’s a little too close to current political climates there =P

Probably only too close if we pay attention to the demographics that use the “disfavoured” dialects, really.

Suddenly I don’t hate my father so much.

The word “armor” isn’t a real word either. Neither is “humor”.

To prove it, type the words into a reply here; the words are underlined in red.

Now, “armour” and “humour” are correct.

PS
Yes, I’m kidding – my ability to write tongue-in-cheek is lacking. One thing that does bake my noodle though is " I could care less".

MokahTGS.7850:

My daughter wants to go into game design as a writer and narrative designer and after pausing the video, I used this as a teaching moment for her, that even big companies with large budgets can make mistakes, and why proof reading your work is important.

There are other, worse things in the writing and narrative that could be used as a teaching moments. The story and characters are essentially a bundled case of, “things not to do” examples.

Flatley.1620:

The word “armor” isn’t a real word either. Neither is “humor”.

To prove it, type the words into a reply here; the words are underlined in red.

Now, “armour” and “humour” are correct.

PS
Yes, I’m kidding – my ability to write tongue-in-cheek is lacking. One thing that does bake my noodle though is " I could care less".

Maths is not a word. It’s Math.

Right back at ya!

Things like that don’t bother me at all. I suppose I could even let irregardless go (ugh…that double negative!), but literally is literally destroyed of all meaning at this point. The dictionary says it is what it is, and also the opposite of what it is.

If that isn’t the precursor (doh!) to alternative facts, I don’t know what is.

For the devs sake, I hope somebody doesn’t notice the word “Staffs”…

notebene.3190:

Flatley.1620:

The word “armor” isn’t a real word either. Neither is “humor”.

To prove it, type the words into a reply here; the words are underlined in red.

Now, “armour” and “humour” are correct.

PS
Yes, I’m kidding – my ability to write tongue-in-cheek is lacking. One thing that does bake my noodle though is " I could care less".

Maths is not a word. It’s Math.

Right back at ya!

Things like that don’t bother me at all. I suppose I could even let irregardless go (ugh…that double negative!), but literally is literally destroyed of all meaning at this point. The dictionary says it is what it is, and also the opposite of what it is.

If that isn’t the precursor (doh!) to alternative facts, I don’t know what is.

Armour, humour, maths….

Them British folk, they need to learn English like us Americans!

Literally. Irregardless of being a foreign country.

:P

Swagger.1459:

For the devs sake, I hope somebody doesn’t notice the word “Staffs”…

Oh, we’ve already had that thread a few times.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

notebene.3190:

Flatley.1620:

The word “armor” isn’t a real word either. Neither is “humor”.

To prove it, type the words into a reply here; the words are underlined in red.

Now, “armour” and “humour” are correct.

PS
Yes, I’m kidding – my ability to write tongue-in-cheek is lacking. One thing that does bake my noodle though is " I could care less".

Maths is not a word. It’s Math.

Right back at ya!

Things like that don’t bother me at all. I suppose I could even let irregardless go (ugh…that double negative!), but literally is literally destroyed of all meaning at this point. The dictionary says it is what it is, and also the opposite of what it is.

If that isn’t the precursor (doh!) to alternative facts, I don’t know what is.

Armour, humour, maths….

Them British folk, they need to learn English like us Americans!

Literally. Irregardless of being a foreign country.

:P

Hey, us Canucks tend to go for armour and colour as well, but at least everyone agrees on Mathematics .

Can’t agree to “math” or “mathematics”.

Where I come from it’s pronounced “maphs”

Anyway, if I could use a staff in each hand, would I be dual-wielding staves?