Talk:A Perfect Storm/@comment-33974289-20171215172743/@comment-2601:440:8400:933E:9D7C:AC6F:1E10:C4AA-20171215181018

So that not one is confused, I will go in the order of your questions. Know that a lot of English can be changed slightly depending on who speaking it; their personality, and having accidentally contorted or mixed up how English is used formally. That being said, a lot of informal English is used like this. Not exaclty, or specifically, it's... English is tough...

- Cinder is reffering to Raven's men when she says "when THEY see it". This is a case of tense. Cinder is implying that Raven's bandits (the subject) would be able to identify a maden whenever they see it. "Recognized" being in the past tense was being used as a refferal to the time that they did recognize it.

- "A slight case" and "a bit of" are ultimately qualitative; they are measuring something. And people commonly exaggerate or minimize cases of quality in towards their favor.

- Yes. From the context we have of Watt's character, he is probably a mechanic or a scientist of some sort. Not the fleshy kind of doctor.

- Again, this is another case of people and characters emphasizing and exaggerating things to make their point. "A bloody mess" has more of an impact than if he were to say "people would die and it would interrupt our plans."

- Another case of uses tenses as reference. By saying that in the present tense, Cinder is letting everyone in the scene better imagine her point ("things will blow up") as actually happening. Man, English is stupid!

- Watt's is trying to normalize Ruby in front of Cinder. By calling her "A child" instead of "THE child", Watt's is trying to imply that Ruby is not special (if he's unaware of her powers, or just calling Ruby's power's small, we don't know).

- It's not really clear who Ghira is talking to with that line. If it's Sun, he'd be calling SUn undisciplined, which goes with both of their characters and personalities. If Ghira's talking to the brothers, he'd be assunming THEM undisciplined (whether he knows for sure, or is only assuming, we don't know again).

Maybe RWBY isn't the best thing to be watching when one is learning English... Or maybe that's exactly why one should be watching it! Eh, I hope what I said was helpful in some way...