Quote Originally Posted by amnie View Post
then... DD also means direct damage, so using either DD or DPS is 'silly' if you come up with the argument 'dps means damage per second, that's not it' (and it would also mean people shouldn't ask for 'heals' but ALWAYS say 'need healer'.. why does nobody ever complain about people saying they 'have heals'? :P)
The thing is DD can also mean damage dealer and is widely known as damage dealer. DPS has no other meaning other than damage per second so it's therefore always out of place. On the healer subject, I've never heard someone say they "have heals". If you say "I need a heal" or "need heal" you would be implying you only need 1 heal which would also make sense. It's all about context and the problem comes from education sadly. Text speak/internet speak etc has removed a lot of peoples needs for understanding contexts/plurals etc. Also auto-correct really doesn't help! I agree with you on toon though!