Arcen Games
General Category => Skyward Collapse => Topic started by: melkathi on June 19, 2013, 11:16:12 pm
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I didn't find any comment on this and understand that there are many people online who will have no sympathy.
I am playing through my first normal game and am having a lot of fun. Currently things are a bit unbalanced in favour of the norse in my game, but where would the fun be if I had perfect balance all the time. The tartarus woe should make things even more interesting in a few turns.
The one thing though that has been rubbing me the wrong way though with the game is the use of the word "smited". Now I read on the internet (http://grammarist.com/usage/smite-smote-smitten/) that some few dictionaries actually list this as a viable, though rare, alternative to "smote", though I have yet to find one of those dictionaries; non of the major dictionaries list such an alternative form.
For me its simple: I smite a tile. The tile that I smote has been smitten.
If the game was to change that, I'd be a happy blue creator person ;) (or at least one who doesn't cringe whenever he accidentally reads certain tooltips)
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Glad you're enjoying the game. :)
In terms of the word... that is a tricky thing in some respects. I'm always one for being fully in support of grammar and spelling. However, smited is an actual (if rare) word as you say, and smitten just has so many specific connotations to it (even though the denotation is obviously spot on). Smote is good, but I don't think everything will fit in the imperfect tense. Actually in English I have some trouble figuring out usage of imperfect/perfect when just looking at word forms, if I'm honest. We all do those from habit, but I'm only used to the mechanical way of doing it with unfamiliar words in Latin.
Anyway, I cringe at plenty of games, movies, and books all the time. Aughh the comma splices! ;) So I hear what you're saying, and am interested in figuring it out. Right now I'm not fully convinced that just going with smitten doesn't come with more drawbacks than advantages. Listing dead enemies as "Smitten By The Creator" is just weird, and I'm not sure that's the right tense either. Possibly that's a case for Smote.
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Listing dead enemies as "Smitten By The Creator" is just weird,
It deffinitly sounds strange. It is a very strange (and far from easy) word to use. Especially as we never really do use it in every day converstion. Or at least I hope people don't. It would worry me what kind of life someone is leading if they'd go around using smite on a daily basis ;)
edit: and by mentioning comma splices you made me very self concious about my comma use now :)