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TheTarians·1/5/2017, 4:24:49 PM·13 votes·1,346 views

There's a disproportionate amount of people that have English as their first language and know how to properly speak it. I'll give you an example.

A few days ago in a Yorick game of mine, I was facing a Jayce in lane. I had just forced him to back off after I brought up four mist walkers, then proceeded to bring him to about a quarter health. He says:

: I kill u 2 tim in arrow how u chunks me u suk

To which, as any reasonable person would, I respond with:

: Am I reading English, or does anyone know where Jayce's speech comes from?

It was already pretty obvious that he was a native English speaker, but he didn't use proper grammar, punctuation, or even care to spell out the word, "you."

So I've been wondering ever since, and now that I see it more often, I've been wondering more often. How many times have you met someone in game that was a native English speaker, but didn't know how to speak it?

17 Comments

Risk of Fate1/5/2017, 4:41:12 PM9 votes

Speaking and typing are really two different things as well as spelling and grammar. That and people are lazy to type a decent reply, especially since it could possibly get you killed if you're typing while fighting. I think I've had my fair share of bad typing moments where my brain and fingers didn't want to work together.

ModKnightsKemplar1/5/2017, 5:20:00 PM5 votes

Blame our public education system. That's what I do.

S0kaX1/5/2017, 4:41:27 PM2 votes

"you're and your" kill me, "there, their and they're" banish my soul to the hell of grammar.

Nami in Bush1/6/2017, 3:58:47 AM1 votes

"sucker" gives me aids

50000000000000001/6/2017, 4:07:10 AM1 votes

A common counterargument against spelling/using grammar correctly is "if you can understand it, it doesn't matter." And I often do misspell when communicating in game.

But that actually took me forever to understand. Maybe it's "I killed you twice in a row, how do you chunk me so much? You suck."

TyrekGoldenspear1/6/2017, 5:01:10 AM1 votes

Tis the epidemic of text-speak.

People just want to get their thoughts out as fast as possible.

Who is Taliyah1/6/2017, 5:03:29 AM1 votes

I honestly just wonder, why I as a non-native english speaker, always get their/they're and your/you're right, while many native english speaker seem to have no clue about the difference.

Decrit1/6/2017, 11:26:50 AM1 votes

now, i can understand simplifying while playing. I don' t want to be distracted so i can type "you" instead of "u", even thought most of times i type "you" aniway.

But holy damn that jayce went too far.

Sahn Uzal1/5/2017, 5:23:34 PM1 votes

I wouldn't expect much more from a guy who loses lane as Jayce. Mandatory Kappa

V The Support V1/6/2017, 3:34:34 AM1 votes

Correcting grammar; The death throws of an argument.