20th Anniversary Event Ending Soon

But what I wrote is how people speak where I grew up in England. I’m just making the point that there isn’t just one version of English, there are actually many, and it’s a bit cheeky to lecture native English speakers on using the English language when you weren’t taught English yourself but just “English as a foreign language”.

Cheeky little bugger ain’t he

I’m playing retail for the first time and this was my first retail event I experienced.

As someone who spent lots of time playing classic wow I must say it was pretty great, loved all the references in there too.

Especially Tier2 transmogs, I would wish blizzard continue in revamping older sets, would love to see old R13 pvp sets remade in future for next event.

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Anniversary Celebration achivements will be back next year ? i m missin some of them.

I presume so but can’t know for sure

If I met up with a Geordie, a Scouser, a Yorkshireman, a Brummie and a Cockney, we’d almost be talking 5 different languages, let alone dialects.

Please don’t change what you said Thodric “you mean X” means “what you said is wrong and you should have said X instead” not “some people near me also use another phrase”.

And besides you are also wrong. “none” in that sense is always spelt with an e at the end and “none are” applies to 3 or more items while “neither is” is the correct form for 2 items. This is universally true although some people might make a mistake, in your area or elsewhere.

Being a native speaker does not automatically make you right :slight_smile: and since I am a non native speaker I do some research on the language to know what is correct …

Yet you are wrong

You can now convert your anniversary currency into timewarped badges and buy them that way.

Now that the 20th Anniversary Event has concluded, we are converting players remaining Bronze Celebration Tokens to Timewarped Badges in the Undermine(d) update.

The exchange will be 20 Timewarped Badges for each Bronze Celebration Token matching the boxes that were on the vendor. This exchange will occur upon logging in for the first time after Undermine(d) goes live.

We hope you enjoyed the celebration!

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Oh FEL YES I did :dracthyr_heart: :dracthyr_love_animated: :dracthyr_heart:

Not quite, sadly. It was too much and all over the place. I liked the aspects of it, but I didn’t enjoy the overall thing. But it’s part of the hard pill to swallow that I still try to reject, that WoW is not an experience meant to include someone like me anymore. There are two main reasons I’m not exclusively playing Classic. One is hard drive space (which is why I don’t play it at all yet), the other is paying money for a subscription just for recycled nostalgia and missing out on everything else is just messed up. I also like retail WoW overall but the user experience for me is horrid to say the least, especially the more other people are and have to be involved. Yes I have social anxiety but if people were actually sociable it wouldn’t be as much of a deal.
If anybody would really want to fix it, try changing course from turning it into the fastest of fast foods of gaming.

It’s not even just English. I have a family member with dual German and English heritage currently being taught German by a non-native German teacher. The family member is complaining that they’re occasionally taught stuff that isn’t “correct”.

Languages are not fixed in a specific place and a specific time. They are always evolving, always adapting, always absorbing words from other languages, and always shifting the meanings of words and the structure of grammar across generations and cultures. A language is not like maths - there is no objectively correct way of writing something down in any language - and it’s not really meaningful to say that any specific version of a language is the “correct” one. The reason we get taught a specific way of using a language is because it is impossible to teach ALL the ways of using a language. But that doesn’t mean the same rules are taught in the same way by all teachers. American English is not the same as Canadian English, which is not the same as UK English etc etc and no native English language course will be the same as English as a Second Language, which is increasingly its own distinct English dialect. And within countries we have “formal” English, common English and local dialects as well. All are acceptable uses of the language simply by the fact that they are commonly used.

Either way, maybe the developers decided that Alyxc identifies as they/them. Not like its unheard of NPC’s having a backstory.