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The Most Common Spelling and Pronunciation Errors in Gaming?
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Lemming_JRS said:
Holy shit. My roommate says that. Then again he has trouble pronouncing a lot of things. I often wonder about this subject though. Is it just because people are idiots and don't care what they say? I usually try to make it a point to know what the hell I'm talking about and to use the correct name for it. Of course, I might run into a problem once in a very long while, but generally I try to COMPREHEND what I'm saying. If you don't know the name for something, go look it up! Don't fake it or try to approximate it. It makes you look stupid. This goes for all the clueless parents out there, too. And its not just limited to video games.
And the HIDEOS thing...that was so widespread I thought it HAD to be an in-joke I wasn't getting? But if its not, that's just pitiful.
Meatpuppet
Member
OT, but people talking about how they "loose" something.
THE DAMN WORD IS "LOSE"
THE DAMN WORD IS "LOSE"
bobbyconover
Member
This one is done by choice, but I hate it when people refer to Goldeneye as "Bond."
when I was in third grade, we had to do a thing where we wrote out a word for every leter of out name. One of the things I wrote sticks out clearly, because the teacher kept telling me to go sit down and do my paper over as I had repeatedly misspelled something.
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Mortal Kombat
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That stupid cunt made me rewrite my thing a good 15 times before she tried telling my I had Kombat spelled wrong. I had to get two of my friends to verify for me that it was actually spelled with a K.
Damn you, Ms. Trosko!
J
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Mortal Kombat
E
S
That stupid cunt made me rewrite my thing a good 15 times before she tried telling my I had Kombat spelled wrong. I had to get two of my friends to verify for me that it was actually spelled with a K.
Damn you, Ms. Trosko!
Escape Goat
Member
DUAL wielding!!! Not "DUEL"!!!
arhra
Member
argh. "c'mon" is acceptable, "cmon" is vaguely acceptable, but "common" is not an acceptable way of spelling "come on" >_<
Oh, and i typo Morrowind as Morrowing pretty much whenever i try to type it, since i touch type, and my muscle memory for the ing cluster is much stronger than it is for ind (i usually notice straight away and correct it, though).
MrPing1000
Member
ITS COLOUR DAMN YOU NINTENDOOOOOOOOOoo
Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
Or "mell-ay". That may just be if you're British though.
I guess we should look at the original French word to see how it's really pronounced though. Which I would...if I had any decent knowledge of French.
I guess we should look at the original French word to see how it's really pronounced though. Which I would...if I had any decent knowledge of French.
Prince of Space
Banned
No one's said "Gannon" yet?! WTF people!
Parallax Scroll
Banned
it's its their there they're your you're
mashoutposse
Ante Up
I think 80% of the population have forgotten how to spell 'reckless.'
B-B-Bomba! said:
That's a pet peeve of mine, too. I blame EGM, since they're the first magazine where I ever saw 'addicting' used in place of 'addictive', and it just seemed to spread from there. Since that was back when the 'War on Drugs' was in full swing, I always had a theory that the editors there didn't want people associating videogames with the evils of drugs, and went out of their way to substitute 'addicting' for the more suggestive 'addictive'. Either that, or they were just ignorant.
Another widespread misuse of a word I blame EGM for popularizing is 'prequel'. Prequel does not just mean 'an earlier game in the series'.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary said:
The films in the new Star Wars trilogy can legitimately be called prequels, since they came out after the original trilogy, but tell a story that takes place before those films. You can't say 'Sonic 2 is a better game than its prequel' to refer to Sonic 1. People have been fucking this up for way too long now--beatings with an editorial crowbar are long overdue.
No, you're not even close to right...mainly because there's no "o" in the name.Revolver said:
The easiest way to say it in English without tripping over yourself is ree-yuu. And we're going to leave it at this and not get into that business again. :lol
And ICO = ee-koh
MetatronM said:No, you're not even close to right...mainly because there's no "o" in the name.
The easiest way to say it in English without tripping over yourself is ree-yuu. And we're going to leave it at this and not get into that business again. :lol
I was thinking Ryo instead of Ryu.
crestfallen
Member
holy crap, i can't believe this one hasn't been posted yet.
ninja gaiden
gaiden is pronounced "guy-den" not "gay-den" or "gayden" as one syllable.
to and too irk me, as well as "could care less" which should be "couldn't care less." if you could care less then care less.
ninja gaiden
gaiden is pronounced "guy-den" not "gay-den" or "gayden" as one syllable.
to and too irk me, as well as "could care less" which should be "couldn't care less." if you could care less then care less.
bobbyconover
Member
CVXFREAK said:
Both colosseum and coliseum are correct.
This is actually kinda gaming related, if you consider how often the guys at IGN say it. I actually broke down and wrote a (nice, helpful, non-jerky) letter about it a couple of years back and I think they just ignored me.
Kobun Heat
Member
Kabuna Heat
Kobun Hat
(also: Drinky Cow)
Kobun Hat
(also: Drinky Cow)
Mr. Blonde
Member
Soul Caliber
and idiots using calibur instead of caliber or calibre when not talking about the game Soul Calibur
and idiots using calibur instead of caliber or calibre when not talking about the game Soul Calibur
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
I lost a spelling bee in the 5th grade for spelling "Kombat" with a K.
Edit: Apparently old habits never die!
Edit: Apparently old habits never die!
TheGreenGiant
Banned
Omnimusha.
I did that for awhile. :lol
I did that for awhile. :lol