Interesting.
June 25th, 2007 Posted in Gaming, WTF?, World of Warcraft
I was scanning the auction house this morning (thank you, Auctioneer!) and someone was being bashed horribly in the trade channel for spelling the names of some alchemy potions wrong. They said that their first language wasn’t English - that it was Greek, and all their English was self-taught, watching Sesame Street. I was impressed! If you can teach yourself enough English from that, you must have tried very hard, right?
The worst part? One of the people bashing this poor girl (I assume girl, but meh.) followed up with “would any 1 happen 2 no were the auberdine light house is?”
Funny that nobody started slinging insults his way.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Dos dam foriegnrs can go bump a monkey cuz we Amricans rool da skool!
I have a lot of friends who speak English as a second language, and they’re mistreated all the time. No wonder they hate us. We’re all rednecks.
June 27th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Good for that person seriously. I have watched Sesame Street in other languages and I know I wouldn’t have been able to retain that information. I’m impressed. Maybe I’m a grammar and spelling nazi however I just can’t help but cringe at the way people type. It takes me just the same amount of time to type these two sentences, for instance:
any1 wanna run me n my friend thru rfc?
can anyone run my friend and I through rfc?
Meh, maybe it’s just because I’ve always typed correctly and I’m a fast typer. But I honestly wish more people would put in more effort.