Calling all Grammar police!

As unethical as double posting may be to some, just updating that I'm halfway through editing the character page of another Malaysian animated work, this page to be exact -> Ejen Ali

This is a heavy one.

^Edit: Aaand it's a pagetopper.

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Apr 23rd 2021 at 6:26:34 PM

Fanfic.Fairy May Cry needs some major work. The YMMV page in particular had to have huge chunks of text hidden because I couldn't make heads or tails of what was being said. On the plus side, it appears the troper who made those edits has pretty much only edited this fanfic and its subpages, so at least the damage is pretty contained. I've sent some notifiers, so hopefully things will improve!

We need to keep an eye on Generator Rex and clean it and the subpages as needed. It's been frequented by a serial ban evader with poor grammar.

Had to cut a couple recap pages, as said ban evader started (and was the only one who edited) those pages.

Edited by Berrenta on May 26th 2021 at 11:07:50 AM

I added the page to the BERT Watchlist a while ago.

An entry I commented out on Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales:

• "I Dig Rock N Roll Music" by Peter, Paul and Mary is a good example of how this trope can apply Insult Backfire, Noel (or his stage name Pual) Stookey wrote it as a satire on how he felt Rock N Roll was all style over substance, and that fans of rock n roll liked it because it was popular not because it was good music . Ironcily the song became one of their biggest hits charting number 9 on the billboard top 100 pop charts and has been since included on many of"The best of 60s rock!"Or " the Best of Hippie rock" compilation albums. It also didn't that one of the bands they ridicule The Mamas & the Papas ended up covering the song.

Seriously, the Generator Rex subpages are a total wreck right now.

From YMMV.Generator Rex:

• Continuity Lockout: thoght that "robo bobo" episode is just comdey filler episode , it a little bit importanat to undrstand some plot twest in season 3 primer "back in black".

This is literally neanderthal-tier grammar.

Oy vey. I took a jab at that page but I'll look through the other subpages as well. If only I had more knowledge on the show though; for most names of characters and episodes, I referred to the page's respective Character and Recap subpages to get them right.

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Jun 16th 2021 at 8:58:34 PM

This was added to Memes.Battle For Dream Island recently:

• You're just going to scroll by without saying 'hi' to Coiny? ^Explination Coupon Based App Honey posted a tweet on it's Twitter about This Creature Named Coiny, Causing the BFDI community to respond by sending a picture of the beloved BFDI character Coiny.

"Explination". Jeez.

Grammar notifier sent.

Edit: It's not the only edit they made that had bad grammar. In another page, there were comma splices along with an arguable example! Suspended them.

Edited by Berrenta on Jul 8th 2021 at 1:26:57 PM

I know this thread has been dormant for a while, but Funny.Princess Maker is… kind of a mess. Almost entry is confusing to read, and then you get gems like the image caption…

“Look how happy your daughter is after she sneaked into the pig orc merchant’s house, then she was squeeing and blushing when she found what’s inside”. Hoo boy.

The main page isn’t much better, but I can work on that myself once I feel up to it (which. i’m a little under the weather rn, soo…)

Edited by worldwidewoomy on Feb 25th 2022 at 8:58:22 AM

Judging from a quick glance, every entry seems to have been made by the same person.

Should I file an ATT report?

Are they still active and making bad edits? If so yes. If not, it might not be worth it.

Minorica (the one who keeps making bad edits)'s latest edit was on July 15, 2021.

Welp.

I think that user is actually already suspended.

hm, I’ve seen them in the edit banned thread before.

ETA: yeah, I remember seeing them there a while back but I wasn’t sure if they were actually released.

Edited by worldwidewoomy on Feb 25th 2022 at 10:07:02 AM

sorry for the double post! I cleaned up Funny.Princess Maker the best I could (that second to last entry was a struggle, considering that i don’t know the context and the atrocious grammar didn’t help much either), as well as tidied up the main page a bit.

Nice one! I fixed up the ones you missed and commented out some of the ZCEs, if you don't mind.

Was going through a TRS effort and before I can replace this trope for said TRS effort, the excess commas in the first sentence need some cleaning. From Characters.Even Though Im A Former Noble And Single Mother

• Pyrrhic Villainy: Genan used assassins to murder his sister Regret to seize the dukedom, among all his other siblings, had no mistresses or concubines, all his other children are barren, including his skirt-chasing sons who have had many trysts, and even if they weren't barren, he disowned them to protect himself from their crimes (which he quietly endorsed), so he can't adopt their children, if they exist, his "cute" Alice is both barren and disfigured, and the aristocracy only cares about pedigree. To top it all off, with Elena's backing, sent 37 assassins after Shirley's daughters, so she's not eager to take the dukedom, even if she could. His actions, which Elena completely agrees with, have doomed his house, with no possibility of reprieve.

Edited by Berrenta on Jul 21st 2022 at 6:41:55 AM

This was recently added to GameBreaker.Plants Vs Zombies:

• Remember Gatling Pea from Plants Vs Zombies? Well, ladies and gents, flowers and mushrooms, He is back as MEGA Gatling Pea, and now even MORE better than before. First off, He's no longer a upgrade to the Repeater, and second off, despite the unbelievable sun cost of 400 (making it more expensive than Boom Balloon Flower), Mega Gatling Pea fires off 4 high-velocity peas, like in the original Plants Vs Zombies.. however this is where the fun comes into play. Mega Gatling Pea has the chance of unleashing his Plant Food by himself, which then after a massive volley of peas, he fires 5 peas instead of 4, making him even MORE deadly. Oh, and leveling him up increases the likehood of him unleashing his plant food ability.

Couldn't find anything on this: when you put music notes around dialogue (as in the caption on Ode to Food), do they go inside or outside the quote marks?

Plenty of subject-verb disagreement over at ImprobableWeaponUser.Fire Emblem Heroes. I'd love to tackle it, but I'm not in a good spot to do that right now.

HighTierScrappy.Shin Megami Tensei Liberation Dx 2 has this recently-added entry:

• Elohim is a death sentence, he has solar flare is not only cheap (5 mp, if paneled then it costs 4 mp, a high damage ST skill that has remnant on it so it only consumes half press turn always and along side it a free maragidyne that will hit everyone else hard, while giving him a free tarukaja and rakunda, and if anyone gets a kill he'll trigger yet another maragidyne, considering he has some of the highest stats on both AGI and MA (turning him into both the 3rd fastest/strongest magic attacker demon in the game) , he will not only delete any demons on his way Including Maria, Arioch, Erlkonig , but he can do it all by himself, even if all those 3 are in the same party, party, and given he has innate fire Accele and speed boosts on his panels, he's almost guaranteed that he Outspeed and demolish slow parties

It's definitely one big run-on sentence, to the point it is almost incomprehensible. Well, at least IMO. What to do?

Encountered Literature.Brave Exiles. Some of the grammar in the examples is a bit awful.

Edited by Berrenta on Dec 11th 2022 at 9:08:48 AM

I just checked on it, and there's only 3 tropes, and I feel like at least one is a ZCE. I'm not familiar with the work so I can't expand the examples... Is the next step the Cut List, or something else?