L33T sp3ak bruhhhh.... welcome to 2017!

I'm not a native speaker myself, so...

0/10 for poll options

don't care as long as you get, run, don't, help, tea, biscuits, good job, its fine with me

I'm extremely self conscious about grammar or spelling being alright, and even end up editing many posts for the smallest mistakes. I appreciate being corrected tho, asi it tends to get stucked on my mind and it's not too likely I'll commit those again (any time soon).
Edit. Autocorrect sucks sometimes.

You nitpicking about there gramer, and your going to make are community look bad.

rotaugen454 wrote: »

You nitpicking about there gramer, and your going to make are community look bad.

I try to be patient with non-native speakers. I wouldn't want a third of the the EU server judging my French.

I have every respect for people from other countries who speak English. Unfortunately the English as a race expect the rest of the world to speak our language, and mostly make no attempt to try and reciprocate.

Maybe it's a question of education...foreign languages are not a strong point in British schools, whereas most other countries in the civilised world do learn English, and to a fairly high standard.

So, I appreciate that foreign players make the effort, and as such imperfect grammar and spelling are understandable.

This is more than I can say for native English speakers, many of whom have an appalling grasp of their own language....and this is what really annoys me. Every child in England has access to a decent basic education, and to my mind there is absolutely no excuse for not being able to speak or write one's own language correctly, except in the unfortunate case of genuine learning difficulties.

OlafdieWaldfee wrote: »

I´m german, playing the game on english ... but when some of my guildies, who are playing the german localized version, start mentioning the horrificly butchered names of places and skills I get a little bit nauseous.
Also - sometimes it is really hard to translate back to know what they are talking about. "Gramfeste" ... are you effin kidding me?

In Russian translation made by fans there's an option to show location names in both English and Russian. ZOS definitely should make the same for official translations.

Bouldercleave wrote: »

It's not U, it's YOU
It's not 4, it's FOUR

4 is FOR.

Aurelle1 wrote: »

I have every respect for people from other countries who speak English. Unfortunately the English as a race expect the rest of the world to speak our language, and mostly make no attempt to try and reciprocate.

Maybe it's a question of education...foreign languages are not a strong point in British schools, whereas most other countries in the civilised world do learn English, and to a fairly high standard.

So, I appreciate that foreign players make the effort, and as such imperfect grammar and spelling are understandable.

This is more than I can say for native English speakers, many of whom have an appalling grasp of their own language....and this is what really annoys me. Every child in England has access to a decent basic education, and to my mind there is absolutely no excuse for not being able to speak or write one's own language correctly, except in the unfortunate case of genuine learning difficulties.

It is exactly the same scenario here in America. While our education system is probably substandard compared to yours, there is still no excuse for any American to not know the difference between "your" and "you're", "there" and "their" (and "they're"), "affect" vs. "effect", "a" vs. "an", "loser" vs. "looser", etc. Most of us went to school for at least 12 years... 12 years. If you're not capable of learning a basic concept over the course of 12 years of your life... then quite frankly, it's a miracle that you can even tie your own shoes and wipe yourself.

Eremith wrote: »

I don't know English very well. I don't even sure I've wrote a poll question correctly. And this previous sequence looks terrible, I think.
Nevertheless, I'm quite a grammar-***, and sometimes it's painful to see someone making mistakes in my native language (when I know that they're russians, I mean).
So, how do you feel about that?

Bad grammar only takes a rolaid, trolls and braggarts take an ignore.

Just to prove my point, I'll write 2 versions of my post. One correctly and one with bad grammer. You can tell me which is easier to understand.

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There, Their, They're...Learn them...That's my biggest pet peeve. If English isn't you native language, I can forgive some common mistakes. I'll even forgive obvious typos or misspellings of "commonly misspelled" words...I depend too much on spell check myself. I know how difficult the spelling rules are for some words.

What annoys me is when you write and sound like a 5th grader (Take our current US president for example). I didn't think we could get any worse than George W., but we did. For forum posts, the use of proper punctuation and breaking walls of text into paragraphs make for a much easier post to read. As far as game chat, I can understand using shortcuts, especially if you're trying to quickly say something in the middle of combat.

I treat game chat like twitter. Anything too long, and it won't get read. Most of the time I'm using voice chat, so rarely do I ever pay attention to in game chat. I usually have /zone disabled so I don't even see it.

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There, Their, They're...Learn them...That's my biggest pet peeve if English isn't you native language, I can forgive some common mistakes. I'll even forgive obvious typos or misspellings of "commonly misspelled" words. I depend too much on spell check myself. I know how difficult the spelling rules are for some words What annoys me is when you write and sound like a 5th grader (Take our current US president for example). I didn't think we could get any worse than George W but we did. For forum posts the use of proper punctuation and breaking walls of text into paragraphs make for a much easier post to read. As far as game chat I can understand using shortcuts especially if you're trying to quickly say something in the middle of combat. I treat game chat like twitter. Anything too long and it won't get read. Most of the time I'm using voice chat, so rarely do I ever pay attention to in game chat. I usually have /zone disabled so I don't even see it.

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Which was easier to read???

The game is international, it is unreasonable to expect everyone to have the same understanding of the english language. As long as communication can take place, it's all good.