Time for a spelling lesson

[Krissey]

Yeah, i know that reference, and... You won't believe it... I'm french ! Yeah, i know that feeling.
Was just saying. u_u

omelette du fromage! "That's all you can saaaaay that's all you can saaaaay!"

[missybee]

Yeah but sometimes it takes reading the sentence two or three times to sort it all out.

As the sagely David Burge once posted, "Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though."

[AskaRay]

I'm seriously impressed with people who attempt to learn English as a second language

[Konicorgi]

I'm seriously impressed with people who attempt to learn English as a second language

It's not like we have the choice. It's the base of our french education 'cause you better know how to speak english as it is the international language.

[AskaRay]

It's not like we have the choice. It's the base of our french education 'cause you better know how to speak english as it is the international language.

True. Still
I wish it were required for Americans to learn a second language. It isn't, not really (unless of course your second language is English...then well)

Can't wait for Chinese to become the business language. Not that I know that either, just good for some diversity

[PirateCat]

So what I'm hearing is that when we've had enough expansions that we're scraping the bottom of the "old races new to XIV" barrel, I'll pop a Fantasia on my main and start tanking things so that I can say that my Qu cues the queue to pop.

[AriaEnia]

That's a reference from dexter's lab in english. it pretty made us laugh, us french.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C-hQleMFhY

Hahaha Just du it!

[Moonleg]

The way I see it, this game features social interactions - but we are lacking the most primary of social interactions, being able to see each other. We have our avatars, but that's a bit like looking at each other at a masquerade, isn't it?

So to me, your conduct in text becomes your 'appearance' for lack of a better term. Your choice of words and your spelling becomes a replacement for whether you are shaven, have washed your hair, have obnoxious body odour and so on and so on. Using text speak in a medium that in no way benefits from being able to skip a few letters other than sheer laziness gives me a mental image of, honestly, a red-eyed slob throwing handsigns as if he's in some kind of cool gang (and news flash, gangs aren't cool).

Don't look like a washed-out bum online, take a moment to spell and express yourself properly!

[Reinha]

I'm seriously impressed with people who attempt to learn English as a second language

The grammar is easy but the pronunciation can be a PITA. Spelling is the least of worries especially when learning happens through text. I imagine native speakers have difficulties with it because most words are learned through speech and the pronunciation versus spelling doesn't follow very many logical rules. You'd think ear, rear, fear, tear, hear, smear, clear, bear, year, pear and near would all rhyme but they don't... >_<'

Also because it's such an old and wide-spread language the vocabulary has grown massive! About 2 or 3 times the amount of words as there are in my first language.

[Ashkendor]

Also because it's such an old and wide-spread language the vocabulary has grown massive! About 2 or 3 times the amount of words as there are in my first language.

That's partly because English has a habit of mugging other languages for adverbs. And adjectives. And... you get the idea.