Piper is an ace reporter...or at least thinks she is. People read her paper and listen to her. As I stroll the winding lanes of Diamond city I heard her articles quoted, the fear she has sewn about synths repeated by ambient NPCs and of course I myself am recognized as the vault dweller from her "View from the Vault" article.

In short, she's kind of a big deal.

Imagine my surprise however when I open up the article about my character and find the quality of writing - specifically spelling and grammar - to be at a primary school level if that. Now I'm not expecting perfection but...seriously? Is this an intentional part of her character? Was it meant to undermine her intelligence and suggest that she's not nearly as competent as she thinks she is? If so you succeeded and managed to make the only female main character in the game just another entitled bimbo.

My hope however is that it's a goof, that whomever wrote her articles was simply not very good at writing. Let's hope.

If so...some quality control please? Proofread your content before publishing it to the game itself.

Have you read any online articles lately in the real world? Even pieces I read on some of the top news sites seem poorly written and is becoming more common. So cut Piper some slack, she grew up in a post apocalyptic world with no schools and no spell checker and probably spent most of her childhood making sure not to get eaten by molerats or radscorpians. That all said I think she does alright

Give me a break!

Had it possibly occurred to you that this is a post apocalyptic environment set 200 years after the last school was blown up? Sure there's a 6 desk shack school in DIamond CIty, but you can bet your sweet eggs that the standard of education - ergo: literacy - is not exactly top notch *NOR* a requirement for wasteland survival.

Exactly. It's intentional on Bethesda's part, because the same misspellings for certain words occur over and over again in her articles.

And yeah, it is silly to expect the same grammar and spelling perfection in the post-apocalypse as in modern society with mandatory public schools. Read some newspapers and documents from the 18th and 19th centuries, before schools and standardized spelling was common. You'll find spelling and grammar mistakes galore, even in official publications.

The literacy rate is probably really poor in the Commonwealth. It isn't exactly like new books are being published on a regular basis. Most citizens probably get the newspaper read to them - just like what was common in the 19th century.

Piper is doing extremely-well for someone that taught herself to write articles. The misspellings are simply ignorance on her part, which in no way makes her "stupid" or a "silly bimbo". Good grief.

Shes a reporter, she wants the truth not focus on editing all her papers to perfection and sound like a pompous [censored]

I noticed this myself. But what else can you expect from a bunch of filthy savages that call a baseball stadium home. I remember back in my day baseball was America's favorite past time, not some silly savage game of wacking each other upside the head until your brain is coming out of your ears. The same applies to these primitive screw heads who don't appreciate the art of literacy.

But in reality it is a post-apocalyptic world in which civilization isn't exactly at its highest peak as it once was 200 years ago so things such as a proper education aren't so easily obtained and aren't as desired as they used to be in a world where one thinks it benefits them very little when a Deathclaw is gnawing your leg off. Piper being no exception, I suppose. She's not exactly doing this to gain viewers and fame considering her concerns with the Institute, Synths, and the lack of care for the people that go missing.

If it was intentionally done, I can see why.

Honestly, I'd be more bothered if Piper's spelling and grammar were flawless considering.

Literacy would be a rare in a post-apocalyptic world where survival is the focus of life.

The theory about lack of standardized education doesn't hold any water. All you have to do is read the notes and logs left behind by various raiders and wasteland inhabitants. With a few exceptions they all seem to be able to spell correctly and use correct grammar and those people are living a chaotic and violent criminal lifestyle. Aside from some of the store signs and super mutants, Piper seems to be the only one that can't write worth a damn. I just assume that Piper is like many people today who have had the proper education but just can't master basic sentence structure and spelling. Everyone knows someone who is a horrible speller, Piper just happens to be that someone. Honestly I find it fits her character just fine, her personality is extremely annoying so it only makes sense that her writing is as well.

I don't know, I cant make it to diamond city because I keep running into super mutants and stuff that kills me. I am level 4. maybe I need to get a bit stronger.

I am recalling Sulik from Fallout 2, he was maybe a bit far on his end of the spectrum but it is not just a difference in education, language would have drifted a great deal 200 years after a war like that. Perhaps spelling and grammar are used differently in the community she grew up in? perhaps since she does everything at the paper herself, from following leads/investigating, writing, printing, deliveries presumably... maybe she doesn't focus on the editing too much so that she can get the story out and get back to finding the next one? Maybe it was a design choice to highlight that she comes from humble beginnings and has taken on a role that she hasnt spent her life preparing for?

I do like the think that the Sole Survivor chastises her about it now and then though as that character is basically the undisputed authority on "proper English" now.