[QUOTE="Mazoch"][QUOTE="Roland123_basic"] i lived in Belgium for 5 years. you do NOT speak butchered french to a native french speaker. you are likely to get slapped if you do. im dead serious. why do english speakers think it is OK for people to butcher our language? why should i be tolerant?
its like when i go to the ATM at the bank, and it asks me if i want english or spanish..... **** NO i dont want spanish, i live in AMERICA, the native language is ENGLISH. i never once saw an ATM in a European country ask me if i wanted *insert native language* or english.... it was just *insert native language* or nothing... period.
excuse me for expecting people that want to converse with me to speak my language well enough that i can understand them...
Roland123_basic
I don't think anyone wanted to converse with you. That's one of the reasons why you're actions make you appear rude. No one addressed you, no one asked for your personal opinion. You made the choice to come into this thread when you could simply have ignored it. Rather than supply any helpful information at all you derail the thread by crying about how you're mad that someone on the internet made a post in poorly formulated English.
To further underscore your rude behavior you attacked someone else's English while not even bothering to even ensure that your own English was correct. Apparently you seem to have some kind of mandate on deciding when bad or incorrect English is terribly offensive and a personal insult to Americans and when it's just 'shorthand' that no one have any reason to be offended by. Seems awfully hypocritical to me.
And apparently this then becomes the fault of 'the liberals'. Somehow people who called you out on your poor behavior had to be 'tree huggers' and 'liberals'?
As others have pointed, even if this was the US and not an international network, the US does not have an official language. Nor does the US have any laws requiring people to speak English. People in the US can speak in whatever language we damn well please and it'd be none of your business if we choice to speak in a language other than English.
Now, since gamespot is a privately operated web site they can decide what languages should or should not be allowed and they can decide if there should or should not is some form of linguistic 'standard' required, but again, it's none of your business. It really should be quite obvious but if you don't like people with bad grammar, just don't reply to their posts.
yeah... posting on a forum means you DONT want responses.... yeah not at all. *rolls eyes*Damn, there's just no fooling you is there! Yes, of course the OP was looking for an answer, however no one asked for *your personal* input. And it might be worth pointing out that you failed to give a reply to the question either way, instead you choice to complain about something unrelated to the topic, or for that matter, relevant to the forum.
As I pointed out earlier, the US do not have a national language, it might be a hard concept for you to grasp, but you have no business nor do you have any right to try to demand that other speak a specific language. In addition you do not have any business or any right to try to demand that others hold themselves to some imagined linguistic standard.
However since the OP's grammar clearly causes you such anguish, I'll repost the simple and elegant solution. I hope it might serve you well going forward. If the grammar offends you, don't post in the thread, instead click the back button. This should save you the frustration trying to communicate with someone whose language obviously offends you and you'll avoid looking rude and a little silly by trying to force your personal opinions on others in spite of you having no legitimate reason to do so. Everyone wins!
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