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#1 User is offline   barmar 

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Posted 2005-May-30, 19:55

Maybe I'm just pedantic, but I find the wording of the claim pop-up bothersome. "4 last tricks" doesn't sound like normal spoken English. First of all, I think most people would say "last 4 tricks" rather than "4 last tricks".

Also, the word "last" is a bit ambiguous -- absent the obvious context, "last 4 tricks" would probably be interpreted to mean the 4 tricks preceding the claim. More appropriate, IMHO, would be "remaining 4 tricks".

It also might be nice if, when the number of tricks you're claiming is more than the number you're conceding, it said something like "I claim all but 1 of the remaining 4 tricks" or "I concede 1 of the remaining 4 tricks". This is closer to the way most people word claims in f2f.

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Posted 2005-May-31, 02:09

I think you have a good point. I never noticed it before!
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Posted 2005-May-31, 03:33

The same applies to "Smith's claim of 1 tricks is accepted".

Would it be possible to remove the "s" when we are down to 1 trick?

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Posted 2005-May-31, 04:15

I think it is a good sign that we come around to worrying about such minor bugs!
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Posted 2005-May-31, 11:46

I have moved the word "last" in these messages and removed the "s" when only 1 trick is claimed. These changes will appear when we release the next version.

Thanks for these suggestions.

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Posted 2005-May-31, 14:23

any chance we'll be able to use the symbol codes in the claim box sometime down the road? :D
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Posted 2005-May-31, 14:45

scoob, on May 31 2005, 08:23 PM, said:

any chance we'll be able to use the symbol codes in the claim box sometime down the road? :D

Nice idea - thanks. Some chance it will happen some time down the road, but hard to say when.

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