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Agreed. Rate up.

Well someone who does not know English well talks in a far differernt way than someone who knows it but does not use it properly. I think people are using "Leet" and the ever popular "homie" speak and creating their own language with it. I'm more refering to this than people who can't speak english properly. I'm talking about the stuff that you read and you can tell they know the language but are speaking some unknown version of it.

I try and help the European players as best I can, but because they often speak little to no English it's hard to do so. I was able to speak enough spanish to help one person out though. Made me feel like those classes in High School were something less than a total waste of time.

You know it's sad when you play with people who speak English as a second language and you can understand them more clearly then those who speak it as a first. I understand typos and grammatical errors are going to occur, especially in the heat of battle. But most of it just seems to be laziness. Somehow the extra half of second someone saves by typing 2 instead of to makes a huge difference.

I agree with the Macros the Drg in my party the other day had a pulling macro that went something like this: "Imma fall on you head <t>" Yes he was from the U.S. So I commented that a Lamma falling on the creatures head must be painful. Everyone found it funny except for him...

Minona... I'd think about it but I don't feel like getting flamed by all the people who talk like that. Less of them will see it if I post it here.

Edited, Thu Oct 14 14:38:02 2004 by WanderingBard

Well there's many people in FFXI whose main language isn't English. Near 1 or 2 people I meet in a party weren't from US... or maybe its just my server.... You must be meeting lots of people to get you this mad.... Well at least everyone's practicing english chatting around all day....


Note: First language Spanish =p Hola! Everyone I meet can't speak spanish near perfect.

I don't think the issue is with those who do not speak English as a first language. If it's your second language, I'll never knock you no matter how bad it may be since I struggle trying to learn more then one language. I think this is directed more towards the people who use slang and shortcuts when typing their words to the point that you really can't understand what they are saying.

But on the note of the game being played by people of many different languages, wouldn't it be nice if the autotranslate worked for all languages? I love the idea of playing with people that aren't from this part of the world, but it gets fustrating when communication is hampered since not everyone is able to learn a second language for one reason or another. It sometimes causes us to break off into groups of those who speak the same language as us and defeats the purpose of everyone getting to play on the same servers.

Someone's being a tad elitist. If a person is friendly and a good player, why should you or I care whether or not they conform to the standards of academic English? They're typing in a game, not for some book report, so get off your bloody high horse and stop judging people by the way they type.

To anyone that engligh to them is a 2nd or 3rd language, or who knows how many, this is not about you. It is about the people whos primary language is English yet cannot communicate in a logical, coherent or easially readable way. If you can't speak the language properly because it's not your native language I give you more credit for learning more than one language than myself. I'm just complaining about all the people who most likely only speak English but are for some reason or another still almost impossible to understand. I should be spending more time worrying about the battle than puzzling over your macro or what you just said in party chat in case it might be something important.


On another note about autotrans... yeah... having it in more than two languages would be really nice. I'll often try to talk to Spanish speaking individuals and my spanish is veryveryvery bad. So being able to autotranslate with them or anyone else that uses a language that you yourself cannot understand either well or at all would be very nice.

And like Tiffie said above, many of the people that speak English as a second language speak it as well if not better than some who speak it as a primary language.

Edited, Thu Oct 14 21:48:50 2004 by WanderingBard