Adiemus wrote:
If a mob pops behind my rather fragile Necromancer and looks like it hasn't eaten well in a while, I think I'd rather read "POP behind u...move NOW" than "Sorry to trouble you, Lord Necromancer, but there seems to be a very angry owlbear which has suddenly appeared, unknownst to you, directly behind you and, by the look of it salivating, appears to plan on doing you grave bodily harm."
/sniggle
well put!
and otherwise, well said, as well :).
i find it generally counter-productive to advise someone of ill-used grammar, or bad use of wording, or even poor spelling, in game, but then, i read fluent typo. or was that typographical error?
i *will* ask politely for someone to punch the caps lock key just once more, though :).
i have had numerous friends, from numerous countries, who, together, speak numerous languages. (i've also spoken languages other than english myself, but am out of practice enough to not claim any proficiencies therein anymore.) i can usually tell when errors are made because english is *not* the first language, since, for the most part, the grammar patterns change.
this means that i can also tell when the errors are simply bad grammar, or a lack of knack for spelling. it bothers me, but only because i received a good deal of training in proof-reading at a young age, and, hence, my mental spell- and grammar-checker is always on, so i must filter all of that as well.
do i point it out? not often at all. when i do, it's to a friend that's usually asked me to do so when it happens, or to prevent that friend from being sniggled at later on for the same thing.
d00dspeak, however, tends to really annoy me. perhaps because i remember its origin ... it's degraded considerably since then :x. i'm not even sure those using it now have any idea why it evolved ;). ("now" meaning the present day, not meaning this thread :x.)
but, no, i think rather that it's because, many times if someone *insists* on using it in circles where it's not necessarily a) welcome, or b)readable to the audience being subjected to it, more often than not, the person attempting to use it has a preoccupation with the measuring tape, and likely deserves one with a hand-carved case.
yes, that's an over-generalization, and, yes, i realize that there are exceptions, and, yes, i've dear friends in those exceptions.
there... i think that's enough flame retardant ;).
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