Request for a Retcon 07/16/2020 04:08 PM CDT
Hello,

Can we all just agree that the plural of focus is focuses, and forget the eternal nightmare that leads to this sort of usage:

You sense a matrix formed using Arcane mana, commonly referred to as the Targeted Magic Foci enchantment.


-- Qihhth
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Re: Request for a Retcon 07/16/2020 04:13 PM CDT
>>plural of focus is focuses

Someone forgot her lessons from Vatari.

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Inauri
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Re: Request for a Retcon 07/16/2020 08:44 PM CDT
I personally don't mind that the plural is foci, but it would be nice for the enchantments to be called Focus enchantments so that people realize. I mean, it's like calling it the "Gwethdesuans" enchantment anyway.

Or just make it focuses. Whatever works. But as a perfectionist and lover of good grammar, it does grate on me all the time too. :D


- Navesi

The First Land Herald -- Zoluren's newspaper. https://elanthipedia.play.net/The_First_Land_Herald
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Re: Request for a Retcon 07/17/2020 01:57 AM CDT
Crafting in general has a ton of grammatical inconsistencies. Mostly they are to do with plurals, but there's also some incorrectly conjugated verbs and dangling participles.
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