Poor Choice of Words...

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by swiss

No, murder implies a plan, an intention to kill s.o.
It would be manslaughter, which makes me think we should call it:
...slaughtered tail gunner.


Then again it's bs.
As an ex tank commander I can tell you we have the full intention to kill the enemy tank's crew and not the tank per se.
Why should you judge pilots different?
Why did so many pilots explicit aim for the cockpit?

Exactly....it's not like infantry try to shoot the weapons out of the enemy's hands, to make the shots count you have to take the person out.

[Hunden]

Originally Posted by swiss

No, murder implies a plan, an intention to kill s.o.
It would be manslaughter, which makes me think we should call it:
...slaughtered tail gunner.


Then again it's bs.
As an ex tank commander I can tell you we have the full intention to kill the enemy tank's crew and not the tank per se.
Why should you judge pilots different?
Why did so many pilots explicit aim for the cockpit?

Being an ex tank commander myself when engaging infantry we always aimed at their cartridge belts to make them unserviceable.

Originally Posted by EZ1

One of the game-generated (I think) messages uses a poor choice of words. The message is something like "Xyz murdered the tail gunner...". This is not "murder" unless that tail gunner was tied to a tree or dangling in his shute. Can't we just say killed.

You should hear what we had in ROF in first days lol.....well I dont take it as a big issue or problem; I mean the teams are from RU so english is not their first language...But they could ask some of the native speakers from hte community, thats for sure....

btw killed is better word for sure...murder is when a son decapsize his grandmother or something on that line...

[Osprey]

Nobody mentioned "skewered his catflap" ?

[baronWastelan]

"Xyz gave the tail gunner a Texas Lead Enema".

that better?

[Ataros]

Russian version has many mistakes also as if it was translated from English. One of community members collected all the mistakes and presented them to B6. Same happened with the German version. In one of updates B6 confirmed that they are changing Russian and German versions based on this data.

If someone collects English mistakes then they can fix them I think.

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by EZ1

One of the game-generated (I think) messages uses a poor choice of words. The message is something like "Xyz murdered the tail gunner...". This is not "murder" unless that tail gunner was tied to a tree or dangling in his shute. Can't we just say killed.

Would

"Xyz rendered the tail gunner unsuable"

satisfy you?