Do you all purposely misspell your names?

Redfeather1975

Redfeather1975

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

Apartment#306

Rhedd Asylum

Me/

01 Jan 2007 at 04:41 - 41
Guild Wars has some crazy names.
I never saw names like....
Plastic Underpants
Raging Homeless
Master of all Gods
...until I started playing this game.

Russell.Crowe

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

01 Jan 2007 at 04:42 - 42
Quote:
Originally Posted by Redfeather1975
Guild Wars has some crazy names.
I never saw names like....
Plastic Underpants
Raging Homeless
Master of all Gods
...until I started playing this game.
it appears you never played ultima online? =/

The Ernada

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2006

01 Jan 2007 at 04:55 - 43
Quote:
Originally Posted by hidden_agenda
This thread is somewhat stupid, since it's nothing more than a gripe on other people's habits. The truth is, dealing with other people will annoy you sometimes. You have the right to spell your name correctly, so other people have the right to spell their names incorrectly.

This is somewhat akin to the Americans complaining that all the Japanese and Chinese names are so difficult to pronounce -- why don't they just speak English? Well, other people like the names they pick, so leave them alone...
Being foreign and having difficult names is one thing, purposely being an idiot to misspell words in your own native tongue is another. Nothing is worse than willful and purposeful ignorance.

And think of it this way, if people aren't corrected in their mistakes then they will never learn.

yeah_hi

yeah_hi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

UK

01 Jan 2007 at 05:06 - 44
It makes me smile when you see somone who was probably aiming for 'Angel this/that/the other', but instead they've ended up with 'Angle of Death', 'Healing Angle' etc.

Shadowfox1125

Shadowfox1125

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

PST

W/

01 Jan 2007 at 05:06 - 45
Thing is, I've seen countless Male Rangers named:

Legolas the Ranger
Legolaz the Ranger
Legolas teh Ranger
Legoluz the Ranger
Legolas the Rahnger
and so on and so forth...

Mercury Angel

Mercury Angel

Avatar of Gwen

Join Date: Apr 2005

Wandering my own road.

01 Jan 2007 at 05:10 - 46
Rants are generally discouraged on these forums, and as this has little to do with Guild Wars as a whole, and is unlikely to make any kind of impact on the target audience, I'm just going to close this.

For the record, this forum has a policy against mangled english, and we will not hesitate to delete indecipherable posts. The occasional typo or abbreviation is perfectly fine, but making entire posts brimming with them is not. Not really on topic, just something loosely related.