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Bad grammar when trying to take the spear #28

Open eriktorbjorn opened 5 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 5 years ago

This happened in the village:

>GET SPEAR
Every alien tribesmen regards you with suspicion and won't give you a weapon.

Surely that should be "Every alien tribesman" instead?

The message is printed by SPEAR-F, and will refer either to ALIENS ("alien tribesmen") or RAT-ANT ("rat-ant"). So it works fine for the rat-ants. I don't know what the consequences would be of changing the DESC of ALIENS to "alien tribesman". It could mess up other messages.

So it's probably better to fix it in SPEAR-F, where it's trivial to customize the message for this one case.