I have a thorn in my butt atm

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Heh, I think most of us do look past the spelling/grammar errors if it makes sense phonetically, isn't l337 speak and especially where the person obviously learned English as a second language.

YOU, of course, don't get any breaks, Ebola.

[Wilbur]

Leetspeak should only really be used for humorous situations. Using it in every post is *fucking* annoying. Whilst I appreciate that our Icelandic member doesn't use English as a first language (and likely not even as a second language) It does appear to me that he has managed to learn leet-speak. Combine this with generally posting inane "lawls" and you very quickly get annoyed. Not that I'm having a massive dig, I find a lot of the information Skuggomann posts to be very useful and informative and would not want to discourage him from posting.

Anyway, some more effort might be needed or even just spending a bit more time reading what you've typed before posting (a lot of it appears to be typos).

:-)

[perseph]

nice

I am also talking german but I am from austria and got this realy bad austria / bavarian dialekt.
So i think my english is better to read then my german :P

btw: My teacher said colour with u

[Hippieman]

Mild digression incomming:

I spent about a week living with an italian family about a year back. The only people who spoke english were the son and the two daughters (neither were hot, btw, big letdown). Now, I went with the son to school, he was about 18, same as me, and off we went to their english class.

With Ceiling Cat as my witness, I've never heard such horrid english comming form a teacher. And the texts they were given... My kitten, they were so full of gramatical errors I would've gotten a 2(aka D) if I were to turn that in to my english teacher.

My point with this digression is this: Some people don't even learn proper english in school.

Never claimed that my own english is perfect either, as I was too lazy to pay any attention to my english teacher back in the days because I thought I knew everything, beeing half-american and all.

However I do agree with the "leetspeak"-comments.

A general tip, though: IF IN DOUBT, CHECK IT IN WORD.

[Wilbur]

Colour is how it SHOULD be spelt.

Color is the bastardised American "version" of the word.
This is what happens when you let the "colonys" run themselves, start ruining our language *shakes fist angrily*

[Fancyz]

lol here its spelled Color :P

This is my point..... we both understand each other even though we spell things differently..... So lets stop bashing people who speak english as a second language a whole lot better than we can speak their language.

Agreed

Colour is how it SHOULD be spelt.

Color is the bastardised American "version" of the word.
This is what happens when you let the "colonys" run themselves, start ruining our language *shakes fist angrily*

need to calm down there a bit bud

[unit187]

I am Russian and I consider that my English is good enough to allow people to understand me. Though I agree that 1337 speak should be used only in case of some kind of humor in your speech.

After all, playing WoW gave me some habits to speak "u", "tho" and a few other words, hard to fight against it.

[Zseth]

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By the way, if you want to be cool and not have to learn leet:
http://ryanross.net/leet/

[unit187]

WH@+ 4R3

dude this leet sucks! check my

\/\/ |-| 0 /-\ |2 3

...too lazy to write any more 1337...

[Shogun]

Colour is how it SHOULD be spelt.

Color is the bastardised American "version" of the word.
This is what happens when you let the "colonys" run themselves, start ruining our language *shakes fist angrily*

Colour is a word of Latin origin which we "stole". Most latin based languages spell it "color". There's no way to win that argument, except that in English, it's spelt colour, if you insist you're speaking English, then spell it with a "u".

American isn't the same as English.

And Skuggo's posts ammuse me more than annoy me, English isn't his first language

His avatar however annoys me, too big, wasn't there a size limit? :P