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[DaZur]

Okay...

I may be the pot calling the kettle black here but have from time to time struggled with reading some of the posting on this forum. Some of which, I believe get lost in translation and has once or twice incited small riots...

Spelling - When you've become wholly reliant upon MS Office spell checking and have trouble spelling your name... couple nice resources:

• The Chrome browser has a built-in spell-checker. Not perfect as it whiffs on some words, but good in a pinch.
  
• iSPell - An MS Explore add-in that helps you to correct spelling and typographical errors. link: http://www.gnu.org/s...ell/ispell.html

All caps and run-on sentences does not help in any way, shape or form... Your "wall of text" hurts aged eyes and causes vomiting in small children. Just stop...


I personally, when writing on-line tend to write phonetically... I.e. I split paragraphs, insert "..." to pause for meaning and inflection and also sometime go overboard with explanation and detail. I guess it's better than the alternative eh?

English is my second language - Please take the time to proof your posts. (Spelling and grammar) I can only imagine the difficulties that this entails... I do not have the constitution to attempt to carry on a discussion in any language I do not have mastery of... kudos to you for the effort!. That said, I've watch too many of these posts get flamed for being taken out of context or written is such a was that the forum topic and point is lost in translation...

Thanks for your attention... This has been your friendly grammar police PSA. Please proceed with your beating of dead horses, reiteration of long discussed scenarios and speculations.

Edited by DaZur, 30 May 2012 - 09:00 AM.

[Tannhauser Gate]

WUT?

[Jason Phoenix]

Lulz...

[Claude]

grammar nazi. beware

[Aelos03]

[TwoFaced]

ehh? gzzz!! Com'on mahn!

[DaZur]

Claude, on 30 May 2012 - 09:04 AM, said:

grammar nazi. beware

Now..now..now... Not a Nazi.

Just trying to help everyone play nice in constructive and legible ways.

Oh and because of the funny respondents above I'm adding:

• Harassing a well-meaning contributor is definitely frowned upon.
  
• L33t speak will be unceremoniously ignored.

Edited by DaZur, 30 May 2012 - 09:12 AM.

[pursang]

You know someone is bored out of their minds when they decide to post something as pointless as this.

[MaddMaxx]

Anyone know any good sleep medications. Something one could take, fall asleep, then wake up in 2 months time, feeling fully refreshed and ready to play MWO!!!!!!!!!!!

Or a Topic that does not collapse in on itself after 2 pages...????? (if such a topic even exists anymore?)

[PANZERBUNNY]

DaZur, on 30 May 2012 - 08:57 AM, said:

Okay...

I may be the pot calling the kettle black here but have from time to time struggled with reading some of the posting on this forum. Some of which, I believe get lost in translation and has once or twice incited small riots...

Spelling - When you've become wholly reliant upon MS Office spell checking and have trouble spelling your name... couple nice resources:

• The Chrome browser has a built-in spell-checker. Not perfect as it whiffs on some words, but good in a pinch.
  
• iSPell - An MS Explore add-in that helps you to correct spelling and typographical errors. link: http://www.gnu.org/s...ell/ispell.html

All caps and run-on sentences does not help in any way, shape or form... Your "wall of text" hurts aged eyes and causes vomiting in small children. Just stop...



I personally, when writing on-line tend to write phonetically... I.e. I split paragraphs, insert "..." to pause for meaning and inflection and also sometime go overboard with explanation and detail. I guess it's better than the alternative eh?

English is my second language - Please take the time to proof your posts. (Spelling and grammar) I can only imagine the difficulties that this entails... I do not have the constitution to attempt to carry on a discussion in any language I do not have mastery of... kudos to you for the effort!. That said, I've watch too many of these posts get flamed for being taken out of context or written is such a was that the forum topic and point is lost in translation...

Thanks for your attention... This has been your friendly grammar police PSA. Please proceed with your beating of dead horses, reiteration of long discussed scenarios and speculations.

Ugh.

I would Team kill you despite the penalties.

[Zack Delphirian]

I was just gonna say "Iz kan haz Chizeburgerz", but I kinda agree so I wanted to develop just a little .

First point : The spell-checker is just impossible. I don't know about you, but my first langage is french, and so is my spell-checker. Pretty much my entire post, however long, is underlined with the infamous red doodles. And I don't see myself changing it back everytime i flood post in the forum.

But I fully agree, some of us out there forget that paragraphs do exist, so are komas and dots. I can't really start throwing stones here, my english is far from perfect, but I do make the effort of re-reading everything to at least try and correct some stuff.

So, trolls gonna trolls, but I think OP is right

[Voridan Atreides]

pursang, on 30 May 2012 - 09:16 AM, said:

You know someone is bored out of their minds when they decide to post something as pointless as this.

I don't blame him. We're all dying to get a beta invite..........

[DaZur]

pursang, on 30 May 2012 - 09:16 AM, said:

You know someone is bored out of their minds when they decide to post something as pointless as this.

Can't dispute the boredom point...

That said, you think helping current and future forum contributors is pointless?

I take offense at this at face value. There was a time when people helped each other with no expectation of appreciation. This forum is full of people too eager to blast another with disparaging remarks, beat them down for not falling in line with elitist beliefs and admonishing them for vocalizing decent with various aspects of canon.... but offering a constructive post regarding reaping the highest benefit from a contributors post is pointless?

Sorry buddy, but I find your post be far more pointless as it is defamatory and adds nothing of value.

[PANZERBUNNY]

DaZur, on 30 May 2012 - 09:27 AM, said:

Can't dispute the boredom point...

That said, you think helping current and future forum contributors is pointless?

I take offense at this at face value. There was a time when people helped each other with no expectation of appreciation. This forum is full of people too eager to blast another with disparaging remarks, beat them down for not falling in line with elitist beliefs and admonishing them for vocalizing decent with various aspects of canon.... but offering a constructive post regarding reaping the highest benefit from a contributors post is pointless?

Sorry buddy, but I find your post be far more pointless as it is defamatory and adds nothing of value.

Well, if someone wanted to improve their spelling and posting integrity I'm sure they wouldn't solicit random forum troll for "higher learning."

[DaZur]

MaddMaxx, on 30 May 2012 - 09:21 AM, said:

Anyone know any good sleep medications. Something one could take, fall asleep, then wake up in 2 months time, feeling fully refreshed and ready to play MWO!!!!!!!!!!!

Or a Topic that does not collapse in on itself after 2 pages...????? (if such a topic even exists anymore?)

You going to start the count down or am I? Talk about the point being missed...

So much for good deeds being done today...

[MaddMaxx]

Total thread collapse in ....

[Dead Winter Dead]

Huked on phoniks wurked fur me!

[pursang]

DaZur, on 30 May 2012 - 09:27 AM, said:

Can't dispute the boredom point...

That said, you think helping current and future forum contributors is pointless?

I take offense at this at face value. There was a time when people helped each other with no expectation of appreciation. This forum is full of people too eager to blast another with disparaging remarks, beat them down for not falling in line with elitist beliefs and admonishing them for vocalizing decent with various aspects of canon.... but offering a constructive post regarding reaping the highest benefit from a contributors post is pointless?

Sorry buddy, but I find your post be far more pointless as it is defamatory and adds nothing of value.

Yep, actually it's quite pointless to make a thread about this. Do you really think that people will heed your advice (no matter how well intentioned)? This is the internet, you'd have a better time training a pig how to fly then to tell anonymous users on the 'net that they should be interacting a certain way.

Trust me on this, you're only banging your head against a wall fruitlessly.

Edited by pursang, 30 May 2012 - 09:37 AM.

[MaddMaxx]

DaZur, on 30 May 2012 - 09:30 AM, said:

You going to start the count down or am I? Talk about the point being missed...

So much for good deeds being done today...

mis-placed data stream. Running disk check now. LOL

Edited by MaddMaxx, 30 May 2012 - 09:45 AM.

[DaZur]

pursang, on 30 May 2012 - 09:32 AM, said:

Yep, actually it's quite pointless to make a thread about this. Do you really think that people will head your advice (no matter how well intentioned)? This is the internet, you'd have a better time training a pig how to fly then to tell anonymous users on the 'net that they should be interacting a certain way.

Trust me on this, you're only banging your head against a wall fruitlessly.

Nothing ventured nothing gained...

I have no delusional aspirations of creating a Ethiopian Utopian society where everyone uses perfect grammar... I was just presenting an opportunity for those who gave a rats-arse to re-assess they posting habits and possibly utilize widely available tools to assist with this endeavor.

Edit: Because I am human and have become crippled by spell-checking....

Edited by DaZur, 30 May 2012 - 09:52 AM.