(02-14-2015, 04:06 PM)Velandrea Wrote: In truth, I've met tons of non-native roleplayers, who you would think they were indeed from the isles (Brits). Also I've noticed, being Dutch and pretty heavy with dyslexia, that non-native speakers and people with dyslexia are OFTEN the ones with the best grammar in roleplay. They are the ones who are trying to hide the fact they are foreign/have troubles with grammar the most. Whereas I've seen British people in roleplay who made me cringe.
unless peepol talk liek tis in roleplayz, maybe u shuld sai someting about it. But eh? Live and let live is the key. Some people are fast with typing, some are terribly slow, some are sometimes super fast, and some are sometimes super slow.Â
You will notice if people put some effort in trying to come off decently, and that is what counts for me. I had to bash some grammar nonsense into my skull despite my dyslexia/being non-native, and I'd expect people to do the same.
Admittedly, my grammar is a lot more wonky in FFXIV due to the lack of addons (such a misspelled WoW had. But even then I'm often tempted to quickly check 'difficult' words in Google Translate. Herp derp. I've gotten super fast at it though.) I hope once addons are released, someone will bring this in as well.
But dyslexia is no excuse for typing i's instead of I's. Dyslexia is not being capable of telling the difference between "wether and whether". It makes me furious when people hide behind it as an excuse. Correcting us is an iffy thing as well. I wouldn't do it unless they ask for it. Trust me, us dyslexia lot are CONSTANTLY checking if we aren't buggering things up. The excuse making dyslexia lot aren't worth the time correcting. They simply do not care to put more effort in it!
That said, I won't turn down people for roleplay if they got terrible grammar. I may twitch a few eyebrows IRL at most.
As a Dyslexic myself I kind of get and agree with a lot of what you say. I especially miss the spell checking etc.. Â (for example I just had to correct four words after typing that sentence.. and two in these brackets)
I have tried to write it out in an editor then cut and paste it.. but you know what, someone has already replied again and ruined what you just wrote.
There are also other issues with Dyslexia, like the scrolling of text, and missing out some replies. We are known to loose our place when reading pages of text, and scrolling chat is worse.
Also Dyslexics see the world a bit differently, so arguing with us is not easy. Others will have something specific and Dyslexics will have seventeen possible positions they are considering.Â
All in all text chat is not a great way to communicate and we add extra noise into that through culture and disabilities.
So not wanting to pull this too off topic.. Yay for dyslexics, at least we get special powres
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