You know you're an English Major when...

[Innari]

...you feel the need to run around your workplace and correct all the signs that have been posted for grammatical and punctuation errors.

[Boinky]

Not an English Major and not quite that bad, but still I find myself cringing sometimes when I post some line of chat ingame and then realize.... There should have been a comma after that word!!!

[Innari]

Not an English Major and not quite that bad, but still I find myself cringing sometimes when I post some line of chat ingame and then realize.... There should have been a comma after that word!!!

Oh good lord, I do that all the time. And yet, I manage to play online games without getting angry at people who don't use punctuation. (Much less people who can't spell.)

I deal with it well, I'm not particularly sure why.

[Lykeios]

My general attitude is that ...
1. The person typing may have english as their 2nd language.
2. My english ain't perfect and I'm English.
3. If I understand what the person is saying then what they've said has done the job and who cares if they've spelt it right.

Edit - Though signs should not be corrected, they should be photographed and proudly shown round the world via the web...

[Innari]

Edit - Though signs should not be corrected, they should be photographed and proudly shown round the world via the web...

*takes her digital camera to work.* Hehehe.

[Vallikat]

My grammar is far from perfect, yet I find myself getting nitpicky about other people's grammar all the time. For example:

[Meenies Playlist] seems to be lacking an apostrophe in there somewhere, but, if not for this thread I never would've pointed out the fact that little things like this bother me.

I recently PM'd someone with a link defining when to use "who" vs. "whom", though I'm sure that I'm often guilty of messing this up myself.

Correcting other people is a sickness. But I've mostly gotten it out of my system. I try to just let the things that bother me roll off my back. Yet still, I'm looking for a job right now, and so I'll be on a website perusing their opportunities. If I see an error, I want to tell them that if they hired me, this never would've been allowed to happen.

[Innari]

Oh I don't correct people...I just like to correct signs

I know I wouldn't want to be corrected, I take things like that...not so well

[Nexeus]

...you feel the need to run around your workplace and correct all the signs that have been posted for grammatical and punctuation errors.

My bad... I should have sent them to you to proof read Danyoo.

[Nexeus]

I recently PM'd someone with a link defining when to use "who" vs. "whom", though I'm sure that I'm often guilty of messing this up myself.

*cough*

Although it was a lesson well learned but still *cough*

Hey I'm not shy of not knowing english... shoot, American English is the worst kind of english there is. Some ex-british people came here on a boat, got fed up with the proper english, got totally wasted and called it a language.

[Innari]

Some ex-british people came here on a boat, got fed up with the proper english, got totally wasted and called it a language.

That...honestly has to be the best description I have heard of our language in a very long time.

Thank you Nexeus. As usual, you have amused me.

[Vallikat]

Some ex-british people came here on a boat, got fed up with the proper english, got totally wasted and called it a language.

Americans: Rebelling against everything, including our own language, since 1620.

[Jugsmalone]

Well I must admit I must be the most Illiterate of all typeist in an online game. Not really because I can't spell or type but because I hit the print button before my brian kicks in . Really I even have trouble reading my own post at times. Run on sentences backwards wording swapped letters and left out letters. Just utter Lazy typeing .. I do admit I am a super slow typeist if I am trying to be Literate and look as if an adult typed it and not a 10 yr old but mostly the ten year old wins and hits those accept buttons to fast .. but you all fortuneately figure it out in the long run I do get and occasional HUH!!!!???? But Thanks for putting up with me Ill try to type better and not hit that button before I look to see what it is I have written.

[Nexeus]

Well I must admit I must be the most Illiterate of all typeist in an online game. Not really because I can't spell or type but because I hit the print button before my brian kicks in . Really I even have trouble reading my own post at times. Run on sentences backwards wording swapped letters and left out letters. Just utter Lazy typeing .. I do admit I am a super slow typeist if I am trying to be Literate and look as if an adult typed it and not a 10 yr old but mostly the ten year old wins and hits those accept buttons to fast .. but you all fortuneately figure it out in the long run I do get and occasional HUH!!!!???? But Thanks for putting up with me Ill try to type better and not hit that button before I look to see what it is I have written.

I used to be just like you well when I started typing. Ever thought of getting something like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, to at least become better skilled as a typist?

[Innari]

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

This is a really good program. We use it at work to train people who may not be the fastest legible typers but still have the skills for tech support.

I heartily recommend it.







((I do not recommend letting a cat stomp in your eye.))

[Boinky]

HUH!!!!????

Sorry, couldn't resist

And after all, none of us are English Teachers (at least I don't think so ) and even if we notice them, the little typos rarely keep any of us from getting the information.

And as for the English as a second language folks issue - some of my oldest friends in AO come from that group(mainly Norwegians I believe) and apart from the mt sometimes in their native language they have always shown a wonderful grasp at the written English language at the very least.