Phalynx wrote:[color=darkred]Every time someone raises the subject of not wanting players who can't spell, can't punctuate,
Can't? More like won't. (And I'm going to ignore the rest of the quoted sentence because it's just the usual inflammatory dickery.)
Phalynx, you know what? I'm getting kind of sick of you constantly targetting me because *gasp* I have the audacity to wish that people who signed on to play a roleplay game would actually make even the tiniest effort to
roleplay. To show some signs that they realize they're playing a
role, and that role is not themselves at their computer in a chatroom.
When ever someone types something like 'hey im mike can i have this sheild hjere ill be good lol///' or just in general says 'omg' or 'lol' or 'ur' or uses emoticons (and it happens more and more now)
I die a little inside, and it destroys the immersion.
Newsflash: I am a
terrible speller and an even worse typer. The only reason anything I write is readable at all is because I respect the other players, I care about my characters, and I'm
not lazy.
See, when I'm about to post something on the forum, and especially in the game, I take four, sometimes even
five entire seconds to read over what I've written. Occasionally... (and I know it's a little extreme, I guess I can't expect everyone to have all the extra time and computer knowhow to go this far...) ...occasionally I will actually use this complicated program called MSWord, along with the arcane practice known as 'copy and paste' to verify that I spelled a word like.
Once in a while I even use dictionary.com, but we're venturing into forbidden knowledge there that only the elite D&D nerds who like to read novels for fun know of, so I won't even suggest that the average person try it. (You just wouldn't be middle class enough.
)
...)
