Grammatical Mistake in [I]The Price of Principles[/I]

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To play devil's advocate here, since this is spoken dialog, he is not required to be grammatically correct. I think frequency of use, correct or incorrect, should be taken into account for spoken dialog. That said, I'm not going to pitch my lot into which one of you is grammatically correct, because I have no idea.

First of all, are you the Raldo I know? If so, very nice to see you!

As to the topic of the thread, it pains me a bit, but I must disagree with you.

It will be a sad day when spoken dialog is not expected to be grammatically correct. Street language is frequently incorrect, yes, but not because it is not reuquired to be so.

In this instance, though, we are really dealing with written dialog. And for the text in a video game, pretty much like that in a novel, a play, a movie, or any work of fiction, character determines speech.

Alphinaud, of all people, has never expressed himself in grammatically incorrect language. He does not even lapse into accepted colloquialism (which by the way the sentence in question is not). His grammar is, every time, coruscatingly correct, very much in concordance with his highly formal persona.