Hozzászólások - Elder Druid

As a matter of fact I do have spelling checkers running "live" on my laptop. I've made the experiment before I've made the complain, even though I was certain of the outcome. As I said before, "checked and double checked". When I change the spell checking to American it finds all the words spelled properly wrong. So you try it sometime, it might open your eyes and it might teach you to talk only when you know what you're talking about. Also may I remind you that I only said: "I do not care much for anything American". You've taken it personal and you got your knickers in a twist mate. I never attacked anyone. I have the right to care for someone or something and vice versa. So grow up, learn to accept other persons opinions and likings and stop whining. Also I do not try to "belittle" you at all mate, you're doing a fine job yourself for this. Last but not least, I re-submitted my question with no changes whatsoever; this time it was accepted.

I rest my case.

I am glad that you've shown your true colours.

Idézet: aneksi - 2010.03.09. 17:18:16

How old are you mate? 8, 10, 12? Your attitude and your writings says so. Well mate if you are an Italian living in Italy then you are an exemption. Be respectful and polite when you are addressing me as I have been so far. For your information I am not English, I might have a British passport as well but I am not English.For the last 3 year I do not live in Britain either. As I said I am EUROPEAN, I live in Europe. My home of origin is Greece, so as you can see I am a Greek who lives in different European places from time to time and there is nothing cocky or English about my attitude. What does really bother you mate? My constructive criticism or that I don't care much about anything American? As far as the latter is concerned, you would have felt the same if you were a real Italian living in Italy. I know, because I have plenty of Italian friends and I've spent some time living there. You know nothing about me, my age, my job, my CV and my whereabouts, so stop making dreadfully wrong assumptions and stop being rude and insulting.

As for dictionaries, American or British, they all have all the meanings. I am not talking about them, I am talking about spelling checkers mate. Never mind I couldn't care less if you got my point or not. So it stops here. Enough with the spamming. I do apologise to the rest of you who were forced to endure this spamming. You see there is always one to try to cloud the issue by trying to make an out of topic point and by trying to make the reader to focus his/her attention somewhere else.

Typical American attitude and reply. You've just made my point about the why I don't care much for anything American. I am not battling anyone. I make constructive criticism and given good solid advice. The fact is that all over the world, American English aren't the standard. Deal with it and don't let your American ego get in the way of things. You started the debate mate, by trying to tell me the origins of the English language. There are huge and fundamental differences, in the spelling, pronunciation and the meaning of several words and idioms between American and British English. Australian English on the other hand are almost, if not in its totality, identical to British English. The reason being is that Australia was a British colony for a longer time period. Canadian English have a lot of similarities with British English. Mind you recently they tend to adopt a lot of Americanisms due to being very close neighbours to USA.

Examples of spelling: colour (UK), color (USA), valour (UK), valor (USA), honour (UK), honor (USA), behaviour (UK) behavior (USA), criticise (UK) critisize (USA) etc

Different meanings : the noun "funnies" in British English means amusing jokes, in American English means the comic strips in newspapers. etc

Need I go on? I think I've just made my point once more.

Come on mate, please do me a favour, stop pretending that you do not understand what I'm talking about. If you want to have a discussion or debate, whichever you prefer, about the origins of the English language then by own means, I am all for it. Not in here though, 'cause it's not the topic for it. I know mate how the English language was "made", I know the origins and the roots. " But let me remind you, that the standards for modern English, etymology, spelling, etc, are British. The British where the "native" users of the English language before America was colonised by them, the French etc. Actually there was a vote as to which language was going to be the official state language of USA. Do you know the results mate and do you know which languages were the candidates? Please do not answer here, it is not the topic for such a debate. You can pm me and I'll reply if your message is civilised and proper. You can also ask me, via pm, why I don't care for anything American. My reply is the same with almost every European's reply to such a question.

Idézet: ChaoticGemini - 2010.03.07. 06:35:18

Thank you for your reply. I do not post it again because it's too bureaucratic and it's a system with very serious flows. As I said, the question was checked and double checked before admission. It was rejected, fine, I accept their decision. I stand by my question and its spelling. It's too tedious to go through the whole process again. It will be rejected again. I suspect where their system made a mistake. Checking for spelling mistakes, it rejects names, amongst other things. No dictionary in the world can check the correct spelling of names. All the answers are names so the dictionary will say bad spelling.

Idézet: ChaoticGemini - 2010.02.24. 20:17:43

And what happens when there aren't any spelling mistakes, like in my case. My question was rejected for the spelling reason but there were no spelling mistakes, checked and double checked. Mind you, I spell my words the British way which for me and for the majority of the people, is the correct English. Now an American dictionary will say that I have spelling mistakes. I don't care much for anything American and my spelling "bible" is the Oxford Dictionary, so what happens in this case. After all we are Europeans, we live in Europe, we play a game made by Europeans so the correct spelling is the British, who by the way are the native users of the English language.

What didn't you understand drakel velix. I believe that everything is crystal clear, lucid and to the point. So what didn't you understand mate? The word "ambiguous" maybe? Is this what confused you mate? I make my point clear enough for an eight year old to understand. The thing is none of the devs or admins bothered to "furnish" me with an answer, a decent answer and this is what matters. It shows how much respect they have for their clients and how much they value their constructive criticism and/or their input.

I am afraid your system needs to be redesigned to say the list. There are too many questions with ambiguous answers and too many questions that are not asking precise answer and can be answered one way or another. There are also too many questions that break one of your rules, they belong to a specific group of people. There again you could say that every group of people specialises to something according to their hobbies and/or interests. I submitted a question that every high school kid should know the answer and you rejected it as a bad or incorrect one. I am afraid that you are ignorant and biassed as most of the developers of these games and their "servants" are. Either you have your players writing the questions and you accept them all, or you write them all. You have tried to make a game different than the others to attract mature and casual players and all you've done is to fall in the same trap.

I am not going to write any more questions for you and if you do not correct some of the things that are unfair in this game then I am afraid I'll be saying goodbye to you as well as others did. And please feel obliged to furnish me with an answer. Bare in mind though that I am old enough probably to be your father and NOT an ignorant one. Give me some explanation that makes sense not the excuses that you have given so far. I've read them all, I can give answers to them all with solid facts, I also posses the know-how of game developing etc.