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thisismyname
June 18th, 2011, 01:52 PM
"[insert name here] has won their first game as Sherriff.".....

This message displays when you win as a certain role for the first time.

In order to make this grammatically correct, you would have to change "their" to "his/her". I propose changing it to "[insert name here] has won as Sherriff for the first time."

Nitpicky, but hey, no one else pointed it out.

Dark.Revenant
June 18th, 2011, 02:54 PM
"their" is used as a neutral possessive. Look it up; the grammar is correct.

thisismyname
June 18th, 2011, 10:27 PM
"their" is used as a neutral possessive. Look it up; the grammar is correct.


It looks like you may be right, at least according to the Oxford dictionary. It doesn't make sense, but the word can be used as either a singular or plural possessive.

Must be another butchering of the English language I guess. Funny how I got marked down in college consistently for using it as a singular possessive.

Dark.Revenant
June 18th, 2011, 10:34 PM
I'm not sure why they would mark you down for informal grammatical practices rather than focusing on the content of the paper :-\

thisismyname
June 18th, 2011, 11:25 PM
I'm not sure why they would mark you down for informal grammatical practices rather than focusing on the content of the paper :-\


The content was graded harsh too, but yep, .25 points for every mechanical error.

Yinyang107
June 19th, 2011, 12:14 PM
Probably best to put this here, rather than it's own thread.

If a Witch chooses a victim, and then changes it, it says "You will instead make your victim to target NewTarget." That "to" shouldn't be there.

styx0202
June 19th, 2011, 02:02 PM
how about this ? tip - roulette

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Yinyang107
June 19th, 2011, 03:34 PM
'Net' is intentional: "Net, adj. Remaining after all deductions have been made."