Guys, no one is curbing anyone else's unique flower nature here. But this is a mostly text-based community. We mainly communicate through text. In fact, there is even a German-based section for those that either a)don't want to hassle with English, b)wish to just stick to native tongue, or whatever.

But I am going to have to agree with beyond-tec here. It seems as though people don't even try....if you read enough of the English in these forums you'll get a general gist of how basic words are spelled, and you might correct yourself. It just doesn't seem like that happens though in certain people's cases.

It's relatively easy to share ideas with people who don't speak English as their native language. I can easily see who is trying to make an effort to communicate and who is just verbal diarhea'ing all over the forums.

It's very frusterating to share ideas and concepts with those who probably have really great ideas but just choose to ignore any kind of sentence structure, basic "easy" word spelling, etc.

Go read Elitistjerks.com (they're called that for a reason). They're considered the best repository and resource for any WoW high-end discussions on theory and practice. They give people infractions for grammatically incorrect posts, shortened posts (u r 2 funny lol), etc. They'll even ban folks for repeated posts of that nature. Yet half if not more of their userbase is European and probably a half of that is non-native-English speaking. Yet they make an effort to have good dialogue in good English so the rest of us can enjoy and understand.

I'm SO not suggesting we moderate to that degree. But if I spell it color and you spell it colour it's obviously something we can look past. I think anyone who thinks that beyond's point is that there are differences in how we spell things is missing the point.

It's the sort of "I'm going to be lazy and not even attempt to match the language that is being used on this forum" that's the problem. I know I'll get flamed for that by at least one person as being "Americentric and ignorant" but a)I don't care and b)I think you'd find me surprisingly Worldcentric, especially having played EVE all these years (and being completely self-American-loathing to boot).

Anyway, enough ranting from me. =) Play hard, enjoy, and keep in mind: "reread", "proofread", "correct". And that's all anyone ever asks.