Is SE's Marketing / PR department -severely- hurting the games chances of success?

[Azurymber]

Yeah, I've argued semantics with you and others on this before.

Saying "these are your plans up until summer '11" means your plans FROM NOW ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE SUMMER.

Fight a more worthwhile battle and stop perpetuating this crap.

I'm sorry but you are wrong.
Definition of Until:
–conjunction
1.
up to the time that or when; till: He read until his guests arrived.
2.
before (usually used in negative constructions): They did not come until the meeting was half over.
–preposition
3.
onward to or till (a specified time or occurrence): She worked until 6 p.m.
4.
before (usually used in negative constructions): He did not go until night.
5.
Scot. and North England. to; unto.

from : http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/until

so please just drop it.

[Shai]

You're wrong. Doesn't matter what you think, go remediate your language. That's not semantics. That's good communication and poor communication. That's acceptable English and fail English.

You just failed.

If you only knew my credentials, but don't worry I'm not going to post any degrees here, bro.

If you thought these things were going to be implemented in 1.18, I feel bad for you.

[Peregrine]

If you only knew my credentials, but don't worry I'm not going to post any degrees here, bro.

If you thought these things were going to be implemented in 1.18, I feel bad for you.

Return your degrees to sender if you can't even get this right.
This is what they have planned up until Fall.

Don't know what brand of English they teach in your neck of the woods.

[Shai]

That's funny because I was pretty sure it was "up until" which means a continued action that carries through to the date specified as in "ALL OF FNG SUMMER, 2011."

Bring it.

[Azurymber]

drop it please. i posted the definition
1.
up to the time that or when; till: He read until his guests arrived.

So if its "plans until summer 2011!" it clearly means the plans stop when summer '11 begins. Much like he stopped reading when his guest arrived.

IT DOES NOT SAY "UP UNTIL" it says "UNTIL"

put simply:
Something until event
Means that the something stops when the event occurs.
In this case the something being updates and the event being summer.

[Peregrine]

Maybe Shai's one of this game's English translators.
Sounds about right.

[twili]

Isnt the next Big patch going to be in June? I mean the new battle system etc?

[TonyMontana]

Would it kill the man to say this is what we have planned to be released between now and sept. 15th. Why does everything have to be so cryptic.

[Shai]

I have a year long plan, but let me show you my plan up until summer.

That includes summer. As I said, it could be worded better to lessen confusion.

I don't know why anyone would say it like this when there's better ways to express "now through [a time period]"

[Peregrine]

Isnt the next Big patch going to be in June? I mean the new battle system etc?

Mid June at the earliest is the official statement.