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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Damon Griffin" data-source="post: 434682" data-attributes="member: 3568">Spelling isn't the problemI'll leave the questions of paper sizing, product distribution and such to those more qualified to comment, and limit myself to the subject of using the Queen's English in products which are expected to sell to Americans in large numbers.Personally, I have no problem with any spelling discrepancies; it doesn't matter whether color, rumor, and behavior are spelled with or without the 'u', the meaning of the surrounding text does not change and is not made any less clear.  Nor do some slight differences in grammar cause difficulty:  the Queen would say that 'the crowd are unruly', whereas the President would say 'the crowd is unruly' but again there's no confusion about what's being said.  At most, such things might cause a momentary flash in the back of my head as I realize that 'Hmmm, a Brit wrote this' and my reading continues undisturbed.  Long exposure to British writing and TV have also taught me to be on the lookout for certain common words, the replacement of which has become more or less automatic for me:  loo for restroom or toilet, biscuit for cookie, pram for baby stroller, knickers for...well, you get the idea.  Any native speaker of AmerEnglish, who has less exposure to BritEnglish than I do, might be momentarily confused by some of these unfamiliar terms, and that is something that should be avoided where practical.Once in a while I run across something in the Queen's English that just baffles me, either because there's a cultural reference I don't understand (someone's made a joke and I haven't a clue why it's funny) or more frequently, because unfamiliar slang is involved.  Say someone posts a message saying "There is one player in our group who has a strong preference for playing spellcasters.  He's quite good at it, though at higher levels he does have a tendency to bolly the fram"  -- huh?   Assume that's not a typo...what the heck does "bolly the fram" mean?Okay, I made up that particular phrase, but it illustrates a point.  John Bull can exhibit questionable behaviour by spreading rumours and even telling the occasional off-colour joke, and I'm fine with it.  He can go to the loo, have himself a biscuit, even borrow my biro, and I'll still manage to muddle through.  But the instant he starts to bolly the fram, I'm lost.  PLEASE avoid slang.It seems to me there were a couple of things that just went past me in Mongoose's "Slayers Guide to Rules Lawyers" and/or "Slayers Guide to Female Gamers", but just now I can't remember what they were (possibly because they made no sense to me at the time.)</blockquote>

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