Morrowind talk:36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 3

Misspelling

This page claims to be preserving an original misspelling, which is not actually present in the original, GOTY, or Xbox versions of this text. The following misspelling claimed to be present within source texts is as follows:

...akin to what we have an [sic] so the...

One can verify the text themselves by grabbing a copy of MWEdit from SourceForge and using it to open Morrowind.esm, navigating to the Books section, and selecting BookSkill_Blunt Weapon4. This will reveal the html that constitutes the book within the game.

I have checked the original release (non-GOTY) disk, the original and GOTY Xbox disks, and the gog.com release of GOTY. This spelling error is not present in any iteration of the in-game Sermon 3.

What is the source for this article, if not the game itself? Since the spelling error is not in fact present in the game, may we amend it? — Unsigned comment by Indrele-the-Less (talk • contribs) at 04:09 on 14 October 2021

Verified and updated. I believe some of the texts we have came originally from versions posted online, rather than actually in game, and the online versions may have had typos that were fixed for the game release. Thanks for catching this, and let me know if you catch any others! Jeancey (talk) 19:07, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Many apologies for not signing! I will make sure I do so going forward. The only other non-original spelling error I found is in Sermon 5:

...He though [sic] mainly of the Red Wives...

Everything else seems to match the game text, but for completeness' sake, it appears that a misspelling does not have a [sic] marker in Sermon 32:

...That some are more evil than others in not an illusion...

The misspelling is correct, but there's not yet a note to indicate it. Thank you for your help and patience! Indrele-the-Less (talk) 6:03, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Both fixed! Thanks! Jeancey (talk) 17:42, 15 October 2021 (UTC)