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An Absolute Outrage
I flatter myself to think that I am at least known as someone of mostly Phlegmatic Temperament, even when peculiarities of Second Life are concerned. I am, I believe, reasonable tolerant of Flaws, even if I will occasionally make squawks of protest; these are mostly due to surprise.
There are some things, however, up with which I will not put.
"Twitterbox say"? Have I accidentally entered the Pre-Teen Grid? Or perhaps we are expected now to write in "lolcode"? I believe that I do take some Care in the composition of Prose, and even if that is not the general perception, I am certainly sensitive to errors in this regard, even if at times I am known to play with them; the improper conjugation of verbs is as the squeaking of the brakes of a Hansom cab, or the squealing of a Guinea-Pig. I constantly have objects telling me things and this will drive me absolutely potty.
Natural Language Generation is a complex area of study, and even identifying a plural noun can be rather tricky; it appears that in this instance that has not even been attempted. For heaven's sake, if conjugation is impossible, stick to the colon. Everything else uses the colon in any case; this offence against all civilised mores only occurs when llOwnerSay is used.
It really does feel as if some Linden or other has decided to repeatedly poke me on the nose. Stop it. I am aware that my nose is quite sizeable, it does not need poking.
The Jira issue is here: Fix the legibility and grammar/consistency of the new llOwnerSay implementation. Vote, and vote again.
Your link to the Jira issue results in:
"Error
The issue you are trying to view does not exist.
If you think this message is wrong, please consult your administrators about getting the necessary permissions."
This is sad - I want to vote and then vote again. Turns out that it's linked to "3712" and should be linked to 371 instead.
One can only imagine what one would hear on the Teen Grid between the common misuse of grammar and everyday use of abbreviated text message type. I believe the 21st century has just intruded upon you. I will follow your link and vote. {:o)
Dolmere: hm, noted and changed. I am not quite sure what happened there. It feels like another poke on the nose.
Thanks for the linky. Voted!!!
Madam, thank you for directing me to the correct place in the reporting system to add my 5 Linden-Farthings (approximately two U.S. Cents). Another vote has been cast in favor of the text modification being dealt with most severely.
As for the new color for such messages...I do appreciate the fact that there is a new color, but the default value for it is a nearly unreadable shade of Magenta. If the hue were kept, but the saturation of the color were adjusted to better match the standard cyan and green text colors, it would be far more suitable. (I have of course so adjusted my own Engine-Configuration, but a more eye-pleasing default would be of benefit to everyone.)
Ah, and there I was again, convinced it was my proverbial clumsiness that made my Book Press go stir crazy. Thank you ever so much for pointing out that it is yet another one of those fabulous (and suprising) Linden features, miss Ordinal. Needless to say, I voted.
Kindest regards,
Hexx Triskaidekaphobia
My vote went in. There's no reason for this awful grammar, especially with the "colon" option.
To put it in the vernacular of the gird, in reference to the new color: zOMG, I thought it was something I had done to make it look like that. It is not unpleasant but needs to be a bit brighter.
Im in ur LSL, LOLCATing ur kode! Kthxbye
Oh dear. I've not taken the upgrade - does this break objects emoting too?
Because I've got a lot of things that LLSay stuff like "/me clanks ominously" )c:
Luckily, the error seems to only affect the use of llOwnerSay, thus emotes and such should be unaffected. Still: quite bad enough in my opinion.
Madam, I think you'll be delighted to hear that this issue has indeed been remedied as of the 1.7.2 release. Hurrah for the Power of Public Opinion!
An option to automatically include the SLURL would be so nice. I forget it ever time :(