I have for some time been wondering about the language skills - or rather the lack of skills shown by writers in the forum.
It seems that the better a gamer, at least in their own opinion, the worse writing skills.
Now to a short lesson, put in a language, I hope is better suited for you:
So far you have been mashing two buttons: “Write” and “Reply”. It is time to learn the proper rotation:
Write your text; => right click somewhere => select spell check [now all adds are outlined in red and you know red is dead] => eliminate these adds. Leave it on for alert of pats.
Did you check your group?
Just like no group is good to go without a Tank, a healer and a DPS (or more), no sentence is ready to leave without at least a verb and noun.
The Boss: Read the question again. Did you answer it?
If yes, press “reply”.
To refine your combat skills: Hold down “Shift” while pressing the first letter in each sentence, a name, or the ‘I’ if you mean yourself.
Potions: Just as a Healer out of Mana does not grasp any old potion, you’ve got to select the right word. Just because ‘There’, ‘Their’ and ‘They’re’ sounds almost the same, I tell you they are not.
The same goes for ‘then’ and ‘than’
Look here for a graphical explanation: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling
Further links:
My namesake Hyperbole and a Half have some great pages on the use of capital letters and apostrophes, and what an alot really is: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
Honestly, I usually write on my phone and I am too lazy to correct punctuation or minor typos. That beeing said, please don’t forget alot of people here are either no native speakers, have the education or even age required for proper writing.
With this post i assume your UK native yourself?
You ever consired that for 90% of the playerbase English ain’t their native language? And most only use it during holidays/gaming, so yeah I can understand some typo’s and wrong grammer… Besides the correct grammer within native languages allso decline, whatsapp/social media in combination with slang. So your asking gamers to go against the rest of humanity? good luck! And expect to lose some friends/family contacts.
Stop being a grammarnazi and just enjoy the game/life.
If you got to adres the grammer of gamers your life seems pretty empty…
p.s. If you disagree with me; just post reply in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Polish and Albanese. I will get some Native speakers to check your grammar, lets see if you don’t have any typo’s or wrong grammar.
Hmm. Most times I try to correct my text b4 posting but you must know that every word is red whenever my keyboard is set to my native language or the language of the country I’m currently living in. Sometimes I change it to English because the phone keeps autocorrecting, and sometimes I just type the sentence wrong because I think in another language and translate in my head while typing…
It’s just what it is, English-speaking people sit on their high-horse and looks down on us multilingual inferiors.
small spelling mistakes barely affect the reading speed of the reader, if at all, you can search for typoglycemia. efficiency of writing is also important rather than spending twice as long writing half as much with twice as much text.
I think its because we live in a world where using slang and self made abbreviation is popular. using words like wyd, kys, bae, lit, woke etc.
I remember being a lot more careful with my spelling back in the day, now I dont care because I know you’ll understand me even tho half my words are misspelled.
I always believed that hating on and making fun of people with not-so-stellar language skills is bad. They, for the very least, tried learn something that most of English native speakers don’t even bother with - a second language. If your mother’s tongue is English you can’t possibly imagine how many people in the world don’t know English at all and how many problems or obstacles a language barrier can cause in real life or online.
There is no reason of having a “UR ENGLISH SO BAD OMFG GIT GUD” mentality or being smug about “fixing” English for others besides one just behaving like a butt. Having a language barrier is the saddest thing. I personally speak Russian, Czech and Chinese and I never made fun of anyone trying to communicate with me even poorly in any of the languages that I know. Yes, you can giggle at silly use of words, but to try and smother people’s genuine attempt to communicate is just a bad taste.
The first sentence 2/10, this kind of 1337 is actually hard to read for non-natives - I’m not a native speaker either.
The rest 8/10. You would have gotten 10/10 if yoy had written ‘a lot’ Try following the link to Hyperbole and a half and you’ll see why.
Yes, phone writing could be an excuse for lots of errors, but I think that if you’re able to learn how to down raid bosses, simple grammatical rules would not be beyond you
I live in the UK and can absolutely guarantee not even the British can spell. I work in an environment where I often get emailed by academic people and people with PhDs which can’t even spell or compose an email properly to a decent standard. Let alone the less educated folk or younger chavs.
There’s only a few things that really bug me. Using 3 dots to end a sentence, your and you’re, and lastly, using the wrong word that sounds the same, called a Homophone, like See and Sea.
Oh and Que instead of Queue.
Edit:
I worked for a History Professor who literally couldn’t tie his own shoelaces.
Europe got like 5% native english speakers. Be thankful that people talk with you english and you don’t have to speak other language. Kind of disrespectful and arrogant.
Also there’s loads of autism and dyslexia around these parts which is getting much more common and that affects cognitive functions such as speech and writing.
I always try in my bad German or Spanish in shops and restaurants when I’m abroad and most of the time they answer me in English that’s better than a lot of native speakers.
Funny how deliberate joke misspellings become a thing and then they are the normal way of spelling a word. For example ‘loosing’ or ‘looser’ instead of ‘losing’ or ‘loser’.
drama queen 