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Subject: Grammar, where, oh where are you?
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Bungie should start banning users for incorrectly spelling things, or when an incorrect homophone/homograph is used. Seriously. </OBVIOUS SARCASM, ALSO INDICATED BY THIS STATEMENT>

But seriously, I have trouble reading here and I feel a dent in my intellegence every once in a while when I see a message typed out like somebody's Shift key(s) are broken. Maybe you guys at Bungie could make a spell check option to check the messages that they post. Or start banning <.<

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  • 07.05.2005 11:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: I DarkRush I
Bungie should start banning users for incorrectly spelling things, or when an incorrect homophone/homograph is used. Seriously. </OBVIOUS SARCASM, ALSO INDICATED BY THIS STATEMENT>

But seriously, I have trouble reading here and I feel a dent in my intellegence every once in a while when I see a message typed out like somebody's Shift key(s) are broken. Maybe you guys at Bungie could make a spell check option to check the messages that they post. Or start banning <.<


Unfortunately it's not always appropriate to punish people for their lack of grammatical ability. Some people here have good things to say but don't use correct grammar and they get along fine. It's probably best just to ignore the "zomg u r teh ghey!¬!11111111" users.

  • 07.06.2005 12:03 AM PDT
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I think people should just look in their dyckchonarys! XD

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  • 07.06.2005 4:47 AM PDT
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  • 07.06.2005 6:47 AM PDT
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Nice avatar, seriously, that's the coolest one I've seen so far.

  • 07.06.2005 7:17 AM PDT

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I agree that there should be some way to correct grammar and spelling. But people can make mistakes or may just not be very good at english. You can't ban someone for not speaking very good english. It would be like putting someone into detention at school because they couldn't spell correctly or were bad at grammar. What does that teach them? nothing.

  • 07.06.2005 8:59 AM PDT

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Spelling and grammar certainly help if you want to be taken seriously, but banning someone for bad grammar wouldn't be fair to the members who speak english as a second language. I'm often impressed and humbled with some of their writing skills.

  • 07.06.2005 10:40 AM PDT
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...and the idiots that don't use paragraphing :( I hate it when theres a whole page to read and you keep losing where you are.

  • 07.06.2005 1:33 PM PDT
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See signature for spell checking feature. :)

  • 07.06.2005 1:42 PM PDT
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I was being sarcastic about the banning part(s). But, with all due seriousness, there are the people who type out messages like this: "wat r u sayin tht i shud do. wen pplz r moding tey r cheting n i cant do nethin abowt itz." At least there should be some sort of device to alleviate the pain of having to sift through it to derive a basic point being made... Maybe the Bungie community could start giving English lessons to those who request it. ;)

  • 07.06.2005 1:55 PM PDT
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I think of they don't take time to spell correctly and use proper grammar, to hell with what they think. Even if these illiterate or careless members of the forum have good ideas and opinions, If they don't take the time to spell "you" their opinions are crap.

  • 07.06.2005 2:03 PM PDT
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Good point. But bungie can't really do anything about it , so lets get used to it.

  • 07.06.2005 2:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wishhss
Good point. But bungie can't really do anything about it , so lets get used to it.


Well, they could. But would they really want to?

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  • 07.06.2005 3:17 PM PDT