Ye Olde Pub (The English Pub)

[Heilage]

You're right and wrong at the same time ... If you have a guild with mature people that speak how they should speak, and if you talk to them on microphone alot (most who I talk to there are british) that really helps.. But ofcourse, "leetspeak" might just make your grammar worse, thats true... For example I have the bad habit of writing "tho" instead of "though": I actually managed to write "tho" in an essay for school, too...

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I'd call that bad influences. The majority of internet gamers write in a horrific way, shortening almost every word and turning it into something almost unreadable.

[Gamlemor]

I couldn't agree more. I myself have never played Wow, but the "english" in CS in and such games that I have played, correct spelling and grammatics is abscent for about 100 percent of the time. "i liek pwn yoo noobs!" "and stfu yoo fuck tker" are the more common phrases to be seen in any multiplayer game over the internet.

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Try the game and you will see that you are WRONG, WoW is not full of 1337speaking bitches, and the average English skill is actually quite good.

Endret 19. november 2006 av Lord-Myrrah

[akarno]

I couldn't agree more. I myself have never played Wow, but the "english" in CS in and such games that I have played, correct spelling and grammatics is abscent for about 100 percent of the time. "i liek pwn yoo noobs!" "and stfu yoo fuck tker" are the more common phrases to be seen in any multiplayer game over the internet.

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Try the game and you will see that you are WRONG, WoW is not full of 1337speaking bitches, and the average English skill is actually quite good.

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Just remembered something about that game. One of my previous guild leader was from Italy, before playing WoW he was playing Anarchy Online where he basicly learned how to speak english - before playing the games he never spoke english. In the time he was our guild leader he improved all the time too

[Nerf]

I couldn't agree more. I myself have never played Wow, but the "english" in CS in and such games that I have played, correct spelling and grammatics is abscent for about 100 percent of the time. "i liek pwn yoo noobs!" "and stfu yoo fuck tker" are the more common phrases to be seen in any multiplayer game over the internet.

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Try the game and you will see that you are WRONG, WoW is not full of 1337speaking bitches and the average English skill is actually quite good.

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Well, you could be right, and I'm not saying you aren't, but the reason why I haven't tried this game yet is because I just don't find that type of game very interesting(and by that I mean all magic, and elves, orcs and such, not MMORPG).

 

But I have to admit, several of my friends are telling me I should try it, so I might just have a go just to see how it really works for me.

[Gamlemor]

Well, if I was you, I would not, because either you'll just get bored and quit and feel that you've wasted your money, or you will get adicted and lose control over your gaming, if you're not of those 5-10% people who manage to control themself.

[Killerquo]

How can WoW contribute to writing skills? I've never played the game myself, but as an ex cs gamer I can only imagine the amount of leet-speak a game like WoW contains. It's kind of like saying that writing sms messages helps my norwegian.

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You're right and wrong at the same time ... If you have a guild with mature people that speak how they should speak, and if you talk to them on microphone alot (most who I talk to there are british) that really helps.. But ofcourse, "leetspeak" might just make your grammar worse, thats true... For example I have the bad habit of writing "tho" instead of "though": I actually managed to write "tho" in an essay for school, too...

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Add playing on an RP server with people using more advanced language, taking full distance from the leetspeak, and often writing histories and events down in large...uhm...yeah...write stuff that has happened down in detail, it helps to those, at least.

 

As an example I can actually put up this which I made to my character. Just to put an example to what many people do. Some are totally new to the roleplaying thing, I was when I started with WoW, what I'd call experienced with RP-gaming from mainly Diablo 2 and The Elder Scrolls 3 already, which I know has helped me alot. But WoW has by far helped me develope what I already knew.

 

And that is not glorifying those games, but saying that playing games in general might help you learn the language their made with will in many cases be easier than many other sources of language developement and education.

[Heilage]

SO got closed.

 

 

I hope these leet speaking people grow up and start using proper language. People should learn to make themselves understood.

[Gamlemor]

Does that mean that this is the new SO?

[Heilage]

Does that mean that this is the new SO?

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I will tear your head off for assuming that.

[mushi]

Yes, that's why I'm here. My last post in SO was a bit ironic.

[Jarmo]

Hello gays

Still going strong with your english?

[Heilage]

This is very upsetting. Don't tell me all the preteens are coming over here?

 

 

Or perhaps, they problaby can't express themselves like this.

[mushi]

I know english very well

 

I'm not a preteen, your just describing yourself.

[Nerf]

Hello gays 

Still going strong with your english?

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Uh... Was that actually meant referring to the people in hered as gay people, or was it a typo?

[Gamlemor]

I know english very well

 

I'm not a preteen, your just describing yourself.

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Ahem.

(It's called "you're" short for "you are")

Endret 19. november 2006 av Lord-Myrrah

[mushi]

Ahem.

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Irony is a nice word. I'm Trying to get better in english

[Gamlemor]

Ahem.

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Irony is a nice word. I'm Trying to get better in english

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Irony/sarcasm is not easy to detect over the internet.

Endret 19. november 2006 av Lord-Myrrah

[Datasmurf]

Oh thank God.

Something to cure my abstinences.

 

I was going mad on russ.no and blink ^^

 

Oh well, English is my favourite language.

Both oral and verbal.

Well, that and Latin.

 

I'm tired of Norwegian.

It's so boring...

Except the old Norwegian.

From when the Vikings ruled the earth, rofl.

At least they did in that dream I had a month ago.

 

 

Oh well.

I have vinegar and baking soda and a kinderegg-egg.

Oh, and lots of memories from my childhood.

 

First it says boom and then it's all white ^^

[Jarmo]

Hello gays 

Still going strong with your english?

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Uh... Was that actually meant referring to the people in hered as gay people, or was it a typo?

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Gay is an adjective meaning "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy"...

[Nerf]

Hello gays 

Still going strong with your english?

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Uh... Was that actually meant referring to the people in hered as gay people, or was it a typo?

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Gay is an adjective meaning "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy"...

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Oh yes, that's right. Forgot that