Have You Ever Wondered, That on NA...

TheTarians··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:

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

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

Yorick : 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 Fate9 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.

TheTarians8 votes

especially since it could possibly get you killed if you're typing while fighting.

Who in the right mind set types while they're trying to kill someone?

Risk of Fate5 votes

Oh you would be surprised.

TheTarians5 votes

Apparently I would be...

DerpeLord2 votes

i would neeevverrrr do that

ModKnightsKemplar5 votes

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

S0kaX2 votes

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

AMYS GRAVE2 votes

"kill you're self" is always my favorite.

S0kaX1 votes

dead from grammar

Sahn Uzal1 votes

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

V The Support V1 votes

Correcting grammar; The death throws of an argument.

Bârd2 votes

throes*

Nami in Bush1 votes

"sucker" gives me aids

50000000000000001 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 votes

Tis the epidemic of text-speak.

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

Who is Taliyah1 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 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.

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