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Forums - General - You ever feel like the VGChartz community is making you stupider?

I do. When I first joined this site, I would mentally acknoledge all the grammatical mistakes made by the users of the site. I used to stop and examine a post whenever someone mispelled a word, or formed an incohesive sentence, or even when someone neglected to start their sentence with a capital letter. However, as I became used to the site, I realised that these errors were very abundant, due to posters being natural to another language, ignorance, or just plain laziness; and so I came to the conlusion that I would be wasting my energy trying to point out each and every error a person made.

So, I eventually stopped my routine of finding errors and correcting them in my head. But now, just today actually, I saw a post with a huge amount of errors and I had to mentally acknowledge them. One of the mistakes was the spelling of the word 'article' as 'artical'. I looked at the word for 10 minutes, I knew it was spelled incorrectly, I knew it was a very simple word, but I couldn't think of the correct spelling without the aid of a dictionary.

With this swarm of confusion caused by such a simple word, I began to question myself, "After so many years of ignoring all the errors people made, have I myself become stupider in the process? How many others words can I not spell? Was this the 1st simple error that I couldn't fix...or was it the 100th? Has the VGChartz community tainted my beautiful brain with their broken English? Am I becoming... one of them?". Sadly, I think that may be true.

Thanks, VGChartz. Thanks for dumbing me up.



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actually....
i feel like i'm the only one with a brain.



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i dont like capital letters...they are pretentious.



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Not with this site in particular, but the whole internet in general.

Anyway, English is not my first language, so the first thing I learnt was spelling and grammar. I was surprised of how many mistakes people who's first language is English make. As I became a fluent speaker, my mind stopped thinking in written words, and now sometimes I find myself not being able to spell a word. I would say my spelling is still quite good in general, it's just that I now have the occasional doubt that I didn't use to have.



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Sometimes i make mistakes and see that I've made a mistake but i don't bother to correct it. I mean its not like we have to type formally...some people make some horrible mistakes though. But i assume that english is not their first language.

One poster in particular on this site has a very nasty way of writing, sometimes i struggle to understand what is being said. Then it becomes a problem because, I cant respond to something i cant figure out.

Actually i really shouldn't need to decipher a post.



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I also hate when people correct themselves in a post instead of editing out the wrong bits. -_-



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Yep, it's all their fault for not loving Sony more. What has Sony ever done to them?



Galaki said:
Yep, it's all their fault for not loving Sony more. What has Sony ever done to them?


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