Armageddon 2089 typos?

[JoeGKushner]

In the new gaming frontiers, "The 21st Century was truly born on 11 September 2002, when terrorists hijacked two planes and crashed them into the symbol of American economic power, the World Trade Centre, and another into the symbol of its military strength, the Pentagon."

I believe that's September 11, 2001. I also believe that it's world Trade CENTER. If Centre is some variant spelling and is necessary for the home country publishing, perhaps we can get two versions of this book, one American with correct dates and American spelling and one British?

 

[Zenon]

I seriously doubt we'll see an "american spelling" version.

The other one I've noticed in previews that catches my eye is "defence" instead of "defense". It just looks wrong to me, but it's another British spelling variant.

But if 2089 is as good as I think it's going to be, I'll forgive Mongoose for it.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I don't mind the u's in stuff like Armour and a few other places but centre instead of CENTER, especialy since they're talking about a phsyical building, not the centre of a building but it's name. It's a proper name right?

And that typo on the year? Might offend a lotta people if someone didn't care enough to cath that one.

Then again, sometimes people just don't pay attention. Could be worse I supposed. It could be Armagedon 2089: The Two Towers Returned or something.

 

[HellHound]

Centre is the proper Queen's English spelling of the American word "center". I feel that complaining that it is mispelled and should be fixed since it is a proper name is about the same thing as saying that instances of the name "Ivory Coast" should be spelled properly as Côte d'Ivoire (which is the proper name of said country). Proper names are not in some "safe harbour" from transaltion between languages, else we would not hear tales of Sir Lancelot and Lady Guenevere (also translated proper names).

 

[Zenon]

Your probably correct on the Centre spelling as part of World Trade Center being a proper name and thus should probably have been spellled using the "american" spelling.

edit- I'll bow to Hellhound's post, my paragraph above is just an opinion.

I don't particualrly see the 11 September 2002 as a typo. When my brother was in the Navy, his notes from that period all contained the dates written out in that manner. (day-month-year). It's sort of a shorthand for saying "the 11th of September, 2002". Dates can be written in multiple formats MM/DD/YY, DDMMYY, DDMMYYYY, DDMMMYY, MM/DD/YYYY, etc. I think I would have considered it a typo if they hadn't spelled out the month and just put "11-9-2002" or something along those lines.

One day soon I'll have it in my grubby little hands (it's on preorder, no release in the states yet).

 

[tensen]

I don't particualrly see the 11 September 2002 as a typo. .

It is a typo in that it happened in 2001, not 2002. Not by the order the dates were listed.

 

[Rickg]

Zenon,

The typo is that is happened in 2001 not 2002.

 

[JoeGKushner]

It truly scares me that people have already forgotten when it happened. I'm not super patrior or anything but hell, if a fool like me knows it didn't happen some odd six eight months ago and something like this is referenced in a game product with the wrong year when its still having ongoing effects like, oh, war, then something is wrong with the attention span of the world.

Ah well, those who don't learn from the past and all that.

 

[AerosAtar]

Just a thought

Perhaps it is intentionally different, while still obvious in what it is referring to? Afterall, when delving into a future world based on earth, would you really want to have to revise the setting background material every time something you wrote didn't happen or something you didn't write did happen. Remember, this is a campaign setting based on our history, not an exact duplication of it. At least to my understanding it is...

 

[Zenon]

It is a typo in that it happened in 2001, not 2002. Not by the order the dates were listed.

D'oh! Now I feel totally embarassed. Serves me right for trying to post while doing twenty other things. Something about not being able to see the forest for the trees comes to mind when I was looking at that date written out, I guess I just fixated on the order of it, not that actual written year...

(hangs head in shame)

edit - I felt so bad I went digging through the publishers forum looking for the pdf that Matt posted with the background writeup to see if I could verify it was correct or not, but couldn't find it. But, I did find the thread from Matt that has the background text in it:

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30473

In Matt's first post of the thread he has the background with the right date (2001), so perhaps it was Gaming Frontiers typo instead of a Mongoose one.