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So...Is This Abbreviation In-Game Meant To " Save Time " ?
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Post by
Murrdurr
awesome, another grammar thread.
Post by
Frames
Ya mite b a-bel teh use praper grammer butt i'z stil beats you in PvP :P
Post by
Paolo
You should all move to France, where the government monitors the language and fines anyone who uses unauthorized words. True story.
English is a cobbled-together mutt of a language. It's a language of the people. Those nasty acronyms you hate so much will be in Webster's in a generation. Bank on it.
Go read Bill Bryson's
Mother Tongue
. Hilarious, totally captivating account of the language we live in and how the h3ll it got that way. Know yer history, peeps!
Post by
RobbieG1o11
I don't care for many abreviations. I use common ones though, that shorted whole phrases, not one word.
Like:
Lol, Wtf, Omw
And for locations like
SW, IF, UC
So on an so forth.
Post by
Kibbles
It is actually from Text messages. Used to be, people had only a certain amount of characters that they could text, and so chat was refined to the most basic possible. People would text while they chatted, and everything was about time and characters. For example,
I went to the ice cream store and asked if I could please have a chocolate ice cream, then I laughed.
became
@ IC store & asked if I could have C IC & lol'd
Eventually, with the addition of on line games, many of them were fps, or first person shooter. This meant that while people were typing, they couldn't be blowing up more baddies. And the language was refined even more, and only the nessecary words were employed, until eventually people only chatted when dead or with a break in fighting. When WoW came out, it was significantly slower than these first person shooters, but the language was there for good. People still have to get that quick cast off to out dps IDKIRLLOL, and so many aspects of the old text language are still standing. With the release of head sets, a new idea was employed, and Vent was born. Vent quickly became the standard for raids, where chatter was needed but typing was too inconveinent, but most of the lower levels stuck with typing, as Vent channels are simply too local. Only a few people can access a given vent, and the majority of the people that you would be chatting to are instead in /1 or /2 or, god forbid, /3 or /y.
Wall o' Text crits Kibbles for 666,666
Kibbles dies
IDKIRLLOL casts Raise Ally on Kibbles
Post by
justinc
and yet most of the people complaining here are from teh good old USA wher people have no idea how how to spell COLOUR think that the plual of Dwarf is dwarves ( its not you know Dwarves fantasy race from lord of the rings -dwarfs is the english language spelling)
and yes the extra two seconds of time is important to people --just ask everyone who wants to skip bosses in heroics --time is important .
having said that plox is just stupid --plz is quite acceptable--we all know what it means so everyone go eat a tea spoon of cement and harden the @#$% up
Dude, edit your post for proper English before you start moaning about Americans not spelling words the way Brits do, thanks.
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Post by
Koholint
Well, not the worst, but it makes me wonder why... Shammy... 6 letters... now how many letters does the word "Shaman" have? 6... So why not say Shaman, when the two words take the same amount of time to type?
(If someone else already brought this up, I apologize)
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Post by
qwertydood
I see "PLZ" more often. But yes, it's very annoying.
I even get a bit annoyed at some of the location/dungeon abbreviations. (Which, might even be a bit more justified)
I 'm very well-able to put up with people not capitalizing letters. Fine. It's chat. I'm even tolerant of the odd spelling issue. We all place speed before perfection, most of the time, in-game. But people who are deep in the leet-speak? Puh-leeze. People who would rather use "Soz" than "Gee, I screwed up. My bad!"?
I'm sorry for how it may offend some of you, but I naturally think less of you when you are so blatantly, chronically, using some pidginized form of English, in-game.
Just reply to following when someone uses 'plz'.
Random person X: "Can I have a portal plz?"
You:" If you're saying plz because it's shorter than please, I'll say no because it's shorter than yes."
It's not so much an abbreviation as a deliberate misspelling, a la Lolcats, and yea it is moronic, which of course is why it's been adopted by 95% of the WoW population.
Personally if I enter a group and someone goes "o hai gais we need moar deeps to pwn this boss ok pl0x?" I will either ignore them or leave outright.
The way I see it, any abbreviation other than "Lol" is just a sign of lowered intelligence. I don't want to pull out a decoder ring from a box of cereal every time I want to read a message you post.
^^^^ Pretentious much? (And this is only the first page!)
Annoying WoW players fall into 2 categories:
1. Those who are genuinely idiots
2. Conceited know-it-alls
I'd argue that it is not person #1 that makes in-game conversations and arguments unbearable, but person #3.
It annoys me much more to see someone like Onijitsu trying to convince everyone in trade that they are superior human beings than seeings someone trolling around using 1337 5p43k3 and saying "pl0x".
Arrogance is what ruins in-game interaction, not idiocy.
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Post by
Eccentrica
I apply the same criteria online as I do offline. In my daily life I avoid associating with knuckle-dragging mouth breathers, ditto in WoW.
If you can't or won't converse intelligently you can buy your ports or alchemical needs elsewhere. When people can understand you and not be annoyed with your feeble attempts at communication, you may get more of what you want.
Post by
MakaB
I can handle plix, plox, gief, l2, and any other wow abbreviation. But ''soz'' just fries my brain, I absolutely can't stand it.
If someone said , kk al buy flsk frm u wtb 4 frst wyrm meat in UC gief me 2min kk. I wouldn't bat an eyelash.
But if they said, soz i dont need any actually. I would rage IRL.
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Post by
Rubendesmet619
I think the biggest thing people forget is it matters a lot who I speak too.
If I'm looking out for a new guild, I'll always try to contact an officer or the GM to get some answers. When I'm chatting to them it's pretty obvious I'll try to use as good english as I can eventhough it's my 3th language. I'll even watch capitals and dots and al that crap.
If I ask for a portal or a favor of sombody I don't know I'll always again, be as nice as possible, "excuse me %t, can you please make me a portal to Dalaran? Hearthstone CD is a !@#$% ^^"
Talking to unknown people=>be freaking polite or don't talk.
On the other hand. During a fight, f.ex. in BG's/during a raidencounter, the more abriviations the better. If we don't use vent in a PuG it's a hell of a lot easier to simply type "BL" over "bloodlust".
If I'm leading a raid I have to be fast and simply get stuf done fast, my writing wil be full of abriviations, only wel used ones ofcourse, and the please isn't an issue because I don't ask anything when I lead a raid, I demand stuf.
Against who we talk should be the biggest factor, saying "plz" when asking for a portal when you have al the time in the world to make a decent sentence is outright rude. Saying it on the other hand in a raid when everything has to be monitored quick is a non-issue imo. There goes effeciency over correctnes.
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