joined, but gunboat usually means silent. are you meaning that its public press, or that if you communicate publicly (draws, pauses, ect.) that it has to be in an accent?

accents, that's the best variant ever :)

Sorry, I wasn't aware that Gunboat was silent. It is a public press game. All communication should be in global chat & using charicature accents.

Oui, Aam 'oping for France.

does it bother you that you spelled it wrong

Not at all. Which word Oui, 'oping, or Aam?

Or Charicatures?

Ah yes. Caricature, oh well. like I said...long day.

I wuz juust pissing thoo et fought, y-knot opt for jeee English, evan thoo Je suis Francais.

@ CrazyAnglican: You specifically wanted to play a gunboat game, but you didn't know that gunboat meant 'no press'....

Out of interest what did you think "gunboat" meant?

@ rador Thanks for joining, I hope it will be fun.

@Jamie I apparently got Gunboat (as I stated not a term I'd heard before joining this site) confused with public press only, so in taking them as synonyms I didn't give much thought to what gunboat could have meant.

@ Maniac That's the idea :-) Why not join the game?

@ Acosmist (I'll elaborate) Codified spelling is basically a function of the printing press. Before it's wide use it was common to see the same word spelled two or three different ways in the same manuscript. William Shakespeare, for instance, spelled his name several different ways*. Names and basic everyday words had alternate spellings, but it wasn't that big a deal. One can make the argument that, with the advent of the Internet and text messaging, spelling will not need to be so rigid anymore, and that in a couple of hundred years our quaint, antiquated speech will be seen as stilted and it'll be one of those funny historical curiousities that people would point out a word that was "spelled wrong" even though they both knew exactly what was being conveyed.

http://shakespeareauthorship.com/name1.html

@ everybody

sorry if I came off a bit grumpy this morning (I'll reiterate flooded house, etc.), but it just seems assinine to spam a thread about a game that you seem to have no intention of joining.

@crazy, i'm not joining game at the moment although this one could be fun.

Whilst i agree with your history of spelling, I have to disagree with your view of the future. spelling will become more important and not less important, and the reason for this is as you yourself have observed, people will pick you up on poor spelling. Although Charicatures <sic> was a good attempt at a word that you probably do not use that often, and presumably the 'h' was added because you thought the root word was character, someone still picked you up on it. It matters to a lot of people, in the same way people judge books by their covers or people by their shoes. People make instant judgements about intelligence based on your ability to spell.

@ Maniac

Yes, I agree with you on your outlook of the future. I do think that spelling will be one of the hallmarks of good writing for a long time to come. There is still a great difference between formal writing and informal. Generally, I'm an obsessive proofreader, but when everyone knows that you only get one shot as a message (no way that I've found to edit posts on this forum) it just seemed a bit over the top to insinuate that someone should feel bothered by an incorrectly spelled word. Even on writing tests at the college level, some consideration is given for timed tests and minor errors.

Like I said though, my response probably had more to do with the state of my house than the state of my grammar. So, I still apologize for coming off defensively.

also where would america be without it's national spelling bee competition?

do you really think the future will be that different?

The printing press was invented so...spelling matters now!

If you don't like truth for its own sake, perhaps you could think about the signaling function of correct spelling?

What a stupid argument to have! BE CORRECT. QED.

Who's arguing? I'm merely pointing out that it's a bit assinine to spam a thread about a game in which you seem to have no interest other than to salve your own ego by nit picking.

@ orathaic

No not really,

I'm quite a big proponent of correct spelling and spelling bee competitions for that matter (having conducted quite a few of them). I just couldn't resist the temptation of jerking Acosmist's chain a bit. He doesn't seem to have seen the myriad apologies for my own rude behavior in this thread.

This is silly. So Crazy Anglican misspelled a word. Yes it is better to spell words correctly, but this a forum not an English essay.
"Perhaps you should think about the signaling function of words"... yes Crazy Anglican shame on you! Not enough people think about the signaling function of words these days! :P

It is kind of silly that he got so defensive about it. I just asked if it bothered him that he did it!

And then all this. :wtf:

Yeah you're right. It's not a big deal.

Cool :wub:

And the supreme irony was.......

this thread was an invitation to a game in which everything is intentionally, what?

you guessed it



spelled incorrectly.

:-)

Heehee.