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bezmolvie
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Even though you may speak fluent English and know the meanings and spellings of your used words, a multitude of tiny spelling mistakes can make your post hard to read and your apparent intelligence drop. I.E. Coudl someon eplease help me ot get this sript working? It's not bad to spell a word like antidisestablishmentarianism wrong, but just don't spell 'the' wrong, if you will.
     Also, although this -is- the internet, that's no reason to use -some- grammar. I'm not saying to be a Grammar Nazi, just capitalize your sentence's beginning word, end with a period, and put in a comma some of the time.

     It takes only 5 seconds to skim the spelling of a normal sized post, and less if you have an onboard spellchecker. Please, just take these two simple steps and it will help the reader of your post actually read your post, and make you and Unreal Software as a community look better. I'm not telling you to do these things, but humbly requesting them ;).
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Yeah, I have seen some pretty nasty English come out of this forum, but then again my English isn't always 100% correct. Lol.

Another tip:

"pls pls pls make script for tibia rpg !buy_house cammond for my mpa http://www.unrealsoftware.de/files.php?id=4982 pls pls pls help pls"

No decently brained person would even consider posting this. I mean, really, how the hell do you get to a point where you spam 'pls' over and over? I would rather see people using a translator than this

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Yeah, I have seen some pretty nasty English come out of this forum, but then again my English isn't always 100% correct. Lol.

Another tip:

"pls pls pls make script for tibia rpg !buy_house cammond for my mpa http://www.unrealsoftware.de/files.php?id=4982 pls pls pls help pls"

No decently brained person would even consider posting this. I mean, really, how the hell do you get to a point where you spam 'pls' over and over? I would rather see people using a translator than this


Nah , translators' outcome is something like "i come moon want , never to pay the map basement skill".

So i guess i like the "pls" thingy better.

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You can't really learn a kid personally to improve his/her grammar, they gotta develope their wording skills personally. I did, lol. Not saying I'm a success or anything, but at least my english is not entirely poor. I've even gotten comments on my good english when I've been in a foreign country. Still I might have some english words that are incorrectly spelt but that's just because they still are appearing fuzzy to me.

I doubt that every user in this forum knows 100% correct english, not even I am 100% correct. I have seen even my english teacher fail when she looked up a word I mentioned. She didn't knew it herself I was laughing inside of me. But yeah we shouldn't expect correct english from the younger kids on this forum. If the kids could type in proper english grammar I'd be amazed and slightly shocked, haha.

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Slightly shocked? I would have a minor heart-attack and struggle to login after that for fear of another Well, that or I would develop a brain-tumer the size of a pea, which would grow and grow every time I saw a grammatically correct post

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Maybe you're saying that 99% of the 'kids' (-13) don't have correct English?
Oh well, I'll stick with the 1% who actually write it (not speak it) in an average understandable level.
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You know what the worst part of this forum is? There are people from Britain, America, etc, where their first language is English, but then they login here and become Spaniards using a translator Just because we are on the internet doesn't mean you automatically drop your level of speech.

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You know what the worst part of this forum is? There are people from Britain, America, etc, where their first language is English, but then they login here and become Spaniards using a translator Just because we are on the internet doesn't mean you automatically drop your level of speech.


Ha ha ha , True , True

lately there has been alot more illiterate English Speakers appearing on the Internet , It's starting to worry me

And they come with 100% more Idiocy and 50% more High Horse riding too , But i guess time is the only thing that knows what exactly the hell is going on

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DannyDeth
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@Bloodshot:
I did that a while back and found out an answer later that I had miss-spelled my correction *facepalm*

I have a cool tip for guys who have good grammar but make a lot of typos is to use Google Chrome, it has an in-line spell checker

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Nah its really funny 2 type stuff like ... ASM (awesome),srsly (seriously),brou (bro') or Doood (dude).
As for common mistakes I always type tha (the) ma (am) and Im (I am) and sometimes I even post stuff written like that but misspells are ok in my book as long as the message has a meaning and/or its spelling errors are meant to be a taken as joke.
Ofcors no1 will take ya' srsly if yo' type sh8 like this ... and not coz is nubish or some thing ... its just that this whole message does not make any sense if you ask me ... so fuk peeps that coment on typing errors just to say "that's not how you type shit man, in fact "sh8" does not even sound remotely like the word shit" , like I didnt now that ol'ready.
Srsly guys chek yor spelling or smting ...
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