Ok, I'll admit I can get a bit sensitive on the butchery of the English language. I'm cool with slang and all, but for some reason when you put people online, slang gives way to bizarre manipulations of language and conversation.
Whether it's "l33tsp33k" in the 90's or ur typing lik u pay by the lettr 2day, it's almost as if it's a competition to see how much you can mangle the language yet still make it comprehensible.
At first it makes you think it's all due to creativity as people experiment with language but take another look at it and you see that it doesn't really evolve much. We've been stuck with epic, fail, noob, and Chuck Norris jokes forever. I mean really.... Amish culture moves on faster than this.
So what do you do? Put up with it? Fill your ignore list? Try to set a better example?
When leading a group I try to enforce at least a reasonable standard of English in group chat, if only to lower the annoyance level and because time spent deciphering dorkspeak can be better used fighting (Yes, I've booted someone in mid-dungeon who flat out refused to talk normal). Thankfully, we have a guild where this isn't an issue, even with the younger ones.
So if you try to maintain a sense of decorum in the guild, or groups, are you being uptight and spoiling the roleplay, or is it better for the game to keep conversation from getting uncomprehensible?
It's been my experience that those who speak dorkspeak, as you put it , are usually ignored in gchat and either begin speaking English or leave. Even the use of the emotes stops quickly when they get no response.
I personally don't care for "WoWisms". I try to ignore them as much as I can. That being said, I will sometimes speak "in character" (I'm an Orc, you get the picture). Haven't had any complaints when I do that, and it's pretty good for a laugh from most of the Guild when I do so.
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Being British and playing on a european server, means it is quiet often easier to decipher what someone is saying in 'wow ism', then it is to decipher what they are saying in english using a translator. As most of these translators, translate literary, the words are english but normally in the wrong order or a word is used which means something different in its present form. So on that basis i find it easier and quicker to read what they are saying.
But i do have to agree, i find it annoying, specially when used by people i know can write english perfectly well.
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or ur typing lik u pay by the lettr 2day, it's almost as if it's a competition to see how much you can mangle the language yet still make it comprehensible.
Pay by the letter, that is hilarious! I have never heard that before.
That is the thing I hate the most. How hard is it to type out those two or three extra letters?
WoWisms - ur fail
, are usually ignored in gchat and either begin speaking English or leave. Even the use of the emotes stops quickly when they get no response.
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