Please learn to spell

[Euphacent]

Wut 4 r u talking abowt?

I think it's annoying when people say "u" and "r," instead of "you" and "are."

Taking the .3 seconds to type two extra characters will keep you from looking like a moron.

r u e?

 

[Euphacent]

Also, people do make mistakes and are grammatically incorrect at times. There is a difference between purposely typing something incorrectly, and accidentally typing something incorrectly. At least the person that does it accidentally puts some effort into it representing his or her thoughts in a non-tard fashion.

 

[Raivyn]

But you'd think someone who was going to throw down the bones about it would take extra care with their every word. Just pointing it out before someone a lot less friendly does lol.

 

[Bustaballs]

What are you people whining about? These boards make Charles Manson look like the Pope compared to most the boards out there.

 

[Thnikkaman]

I think this "leet-speak" is good in moderation... However, you shouldn't use it all the time. Take my cousin as an example. He used to do nothing all day except chat on MSN with leet like "R" and "U" etc... It takes him like 3 hours to write a 500 word essay. If you practise typing correctly, you'll be able to type it just as fast as leet. Plus, it'll help you later on in life. Even though for essays and stuff there's spellcheck, that's just for looking over to make sure you have no mistakes, not for every single word.
In my opinion, if you're English, speak the damn language. Thank you.

 

[Celvantes]

Furthermore, "cn i barrow gil plz" is not the way to get money. A properly phrased request with a damned good reason might earn you some gil, but tossing that out there expecting a handout isn't going to get you anywhere.

 

[Legomyeggo]

I think this "leet-speak" is good in moderation... However, you shouldn't use it all the time. Take my cousin as an example. He used to do nothing all day except chat on MSN with leet like "R" and "U" etc... It takes him like 3 hours to write a 500 word essay. If you practise typing correctly, you'll be able to type it just as fast as leet. Plus, it'll help you later on in life. Even though for essays and stuff there's spellcheck, that's just for looking over to make sure you have no mistakes, not for every single word.
In my opinion, if you're English, speak the damn language. Thank you.

That's not "leet speak", that's shorthand.

 

[Stigmatas]

That's not "leet speak", that's shorthand.

gj sir

 

[alanon]

omg now were bashed because of they way people spell shit? what a crock of shit ..... Basically if you dont like it dont read it or dont come back because telling people not to do this and that is stupid besides do you actually think we are going to take your post seriously ? Yea right take a hike

Because when you consistantly misspell words and continually use incorrect grammar and poor sentence structure, it makes you look like a friggan idiot and you should have more self respect than that. Typos are ok. Occasionally butchering a word or sentence if fine. Constantly typing WSM is just plain stupid.

do u gt wat were r trying to say?

 

[Reishu]

omg i didn't bother reading half the examples people posted >< it makes my head hurt ; ;

seriously though, if you don't know how to type at least readable, don't bother. some people would much rather read:

"How are you today?"

rather than

"how r u 2day?"

just the fact that it's easier to type is a lame excuse, it's harder to read for everyone else.

 

[Mishaela]

I can't type shorthand for the life of me...
I don't so much mind shorthand, more so when people porposely talk in some kindof semi-understandable trash. (oz go xp n ta labrth 6k/hr trma rxx lol)

All I can really say is, better-composed things tend to make it somewhat better quality and to most people, make it taken more seriously. A flame about bad spelling/grammar loses alot of firepower if it looks like:

YORE! WORDSUK

When it could look something more like

Your spelling even makes blind men cry.

Or even

You'd probably type better if your thumb wasn't jammed up your ass.

Kay..

 

[Thnikkaman]

That's not "leet speak", that's shorthand.

Yeah. It's sad seeing people try to short-hand shorthand. Like... instead of using newcomer, people use "noob"... which is now turned into "nub" in some accounts. Learn to type the language you speak.

 

[Blabj]

I gotta agree, bad spelling and punctuation is almost in-excusable on forums and stuff. Typos I can forgive, no one is perfect... But abbreviating like a bitch on a forum where you're not in any rush to post is just ridiculous. I want to be able to actually read that persons probably mis guided, retarded post on some shitty flame board thread about something that really, REALLY doesn't matter.

On a side note though, abbreviating in game is fine if you're sneaking around and such. Heck, even i'm guilty of missing a vowel or two if i'm surrounded by IT++'s and sneaks about to wear

 

[Thnikkaman]

On a side note though, abbreviating in game is fine if you're sneaking around and such. Heck, even i'm guilty of missing a vowel or two if i'm surrounded by IT++'s and sneaks about to wear

In that case, I just won't type. There's no point in killing your character just because your friend wants a response from you. They can wait 20 seconds.

 

[Blabj]

Yeah, usually, if i'm talking to the linkshell, the person who wants a reply will probably be on ventrillo so I can just say it rather than hassle myself over typing out some big long speech, but if you really gotta say something... Abbreviations are fine then.

 

[MajorHavoc]

I think this "leet-speak" is good in moderation... However, you shouldn't use it all the time. Take my cousin as an example. He used to do nothing all day except chat on MSN with leet like "R" and "U" etc... It takes him like 3 hours to write a 500 word essay. If you practise typing correctly, you'll be able to type it just as fast as leet. Plus, it'll help you later on in life. Even though for essays and stuff there's spellcheck, that's just for looking over to make sure you have no mistakes, not for every single word.
In my opinion, if you're English, speak the damn language. Thank you.

LMAO... I could imagine what the essay would look like, when he turns it in:

wut i did dis summa

by, me.

dis summa i wnt 2 da beech a fu tiemz it wuz fun. i got a sunbrn n dat hirt alot. mai frienz tuk me 2 a basebal gaem n we 8 hotdawgz. i lurnd 2 birn antz wit a magnfieying glaz. u shud c dem runnin trieyin not 2 get birnd. i whent 2 diznee land 2. i wuz happee 2 c mikki n minni cuz day r mai favrit. utha den dat all i did wuz tawk on da compewta 2 mai frienz. msn n aim r da shiz.

i no dis aint 500 wurdz but i dint dew 2 much dis summa so datz all i'z got 4 now. kthxbai.

1, me.

 

[Messiah]

LMAO... I could imagine what the essay would look like, when he turns it in:

wut i did dis summa

by, me.

dis summa i wnt 2 da beech a fu tiemz it wuz fun. i got a sunbrn n dat hirt alot. mai frienz tuk me 2 a basebal gaem n we 8 hotdawgz. i lurnd 2 birn antz wit a magnfieying glaz. u shud c dem runnin trieyin not 2 get birnd. i whent 2 diznee land 2. i wuz happee 2 c mikki n minni cuz day r mai favrit. utha den dat all i did wuz tawk on da compewta 2 mai frienz. msn n aim r da shiz.

i no dis aint 500 wurdz but i dint dew 2 much dis summa so datz all i'z got 4 now. kthxbai.

1, me.

lol.... cute >.< but god, it hurt my head @_@

 

[Stirce]

The grammar (not the emoticons) on this board and in the game is atrocious. I don't care what country you are in, NO does not equal KNOW. Putting a Z at the end of a word does not make it plural. And for the love of life the word is tonight, not tonite. I am very understanding of mistypes and such, but the shown propensity towards a complete lack of knowledge regarding your primary language is disturbing. I am not talking about anyone except first language English speakers. (I mean this to say, if you are speaking your primary language poorly then I hope someone gives you examples more close to home, however I speak English so that is what I will reference) I understand that people didn’t get the name they wanted and had to modify ways to spell the same name fifty times. This understanding ends at the name, beyond that learn to spell and learn to write. Video games are proven to increase manual dexterity, improve hand eye coordination, and decrease decision making time. MMORPG give us a new opportunity to further that learning by interaction with a wide variety of individuals. Please use this opportunity to display what you know and not what you don't know.

 

[Uzor]

hehe... I've tried this before, didn't go very good. For some reason many people think it's completely acceptable to spell things horribly wrong... reminds me of that show on TV about 16-year old USA students who couldn't spell tongue and shit.

I don't mind misspellings, but you should atleast know that, like the OP said, Z does not make things plural <.<; heck... It doesn't even save you any time by typing "thingz" instead of "things" <.<;

When someone whose main language isn't english types better then you... you might want to consider taking grammar classes <.<;

 

[Kensou]

Well I do have to agree on the post for the majority of it, I really hate it when people use all sorts of abreviations and in my oppinion is not more convinient, it's more retarded if you ask me.

I really hate when they abreviate everything people feel abreviating, in game there's a lot of them, linkshell names are oftenly abreviated, long names are oftenly abreviated, but what I hate the most is the overlapping, or people that love to talk in 2-3 letter abreviations, people who say "PD" instead of saying [Perfect Dodge] in translator, for god's sake it's one or two more keystrokes and EVERYONE will understand it, Japanese and English speaking people alike.

I have to agree sometimes abreviations are needed to not make text redundant, stuff like "Notorious Monster" is easier to refer as "NM", but this abreviation is somewhat universal, not like "NG" which sometimes "No good" or "North Gustaberg", or "CC", my "favorite" which can mean "Courrie Carrie", "Counter Camp", "Caprishious Cassie", "Cross Counters" and a lot of other crap that people feel like abreviating.

Many people say it's "context sensitive" butnot everyone can set the context, and I ask, "is this how you writte at school?, how you hand in your essays an reports?" seriously, I wanna see someone hand in an essay with a bunch of abreviations for words they felt abreviating just because they felt like it.

One thing more, when people read abreviations they tend to read them by the sound of their letters rather than saying what it means, "CC" is read as "C-C" rather than "Counter Camp" or whatever it means at that moment in time and context, "give me an R2" this is a perfect example, when it should have been "give me a R2" because it's "Raise II" you use "an" only when the sound of the next word starts with a vowel.

I know I don't have perfect spelling or grammar, and truth is english is a second language to me, and not even on my first language I speak or write perfectly, it's understandable for everyone, but many people just like to abuse.

I apologize for any spelling or gramathical error.