Misspelling rogue as rouge - enlighten me

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

I don't know; it doesn't bother me much. What I get irritated at is seeing the word "lose" misspelled as "loose." Whereas "rogue" is a relatively uncommon word, "lose" is very common. And it's not even anywhere near as complex as the they're/their/there or your/you're problems! I crumple up and yell to the Rogue Gods of Grammar "NOOOOOOOOOO!" (especially when it's obvious it's not just a typo), and then because of my Frenzied Grammatist levels I go on a rampage throughout town. I will not tell details of the rampage because it is too gruesome, but let it be said that all small animals tremble at my approach (well, all the squirrels... usually).

Oh, and topic. Probably just because they know all the letters that go in the word, but aren't quite sure of the order. Either that or it's a deliberate attempt to make us Frenzied Grammatists go crazy just to show how broken the prestige class is. I think they're just envious because their DMs didn't let them take it.

*must hold rage class feature in abeyance*

The class is called Frenzied Grammarian. If you can't get it right, roll initiative!

I have to agree though, that while "rogue/rouge" is pretty bad, "lose/loose" grinds at my soul more noticeably. When I see folks mess up "to/two/too," though, I have to make a Will save to stay online.

 

[The_Universe]

That's crazy. Even as my mind screamed that the phrase was nonsense, I was still able to decipher its meaning with minimal effort. Cool!

 

[CronoDekar]

The class is called Frenzied Grammarian. If you can't get it right, roll initiative!

That's part of the reason people think it's broken -- Frenzied Grammatists easily go into a frenzy just by hearing the name of their class! I mean, really, PETTY?!

 

[Mercule]

So, does anyone here use a Dvorak keyboard and do you tend to make the same spelling mistake as the Qwerty typists?

I've used Dvorak for a few years, now. I occasionally get "teh" as a typo, but I don't often seem to get other common typos. I'm a grammar/spelling nazi, though. Even without a spell-checker, I think my posts are usually pretty clean.

Mostly, I think it's a matter of people either being lazy or inconsiderate. There seems to be wave of people who think it's cool to sound illiterate and uneducated, or who at least seem to think it's unnecessary -- but that could get into politics pretty quickly.

What bothers me more than mispellings that may or may not be typos is the incompetent use of homonyms. I, truly, cannot fathom how it can be difficult to understand the difference between their, there, and they're; your and you're; or two, to, and too. To graduate high school without that knowledge is just absurb.

I can excuse it some on a messageboard where everyone is being casual. What drives me absolutely nuts, though, is finding those sorts of things in professional documents. And I see it all the time. I've been reviewing some training documents lately, and it's probably a good thing the person who put them together has left the company because I'm pretty sure I would have acted... uncivily toward her.

 

[Wolf72]

I misspell roug ...doh! I almost did it again, ahem. ... rogue all the time. Also when I'm typing the, I often get teh or hte ... student becomes studnet.

I blame better software, my current version of word picks up those mistakes and fixes them ... so I tend to ignore them and end up posting silly things.

 

[Ranger REG]

Enquiring minds want to know!

I don't want to say anything bad but we got more dyslexics inside the RPG community now than in 1990's.

Sighs. There was a time when I hear a success story about D&D being educational, like one of my old players had to take a surprise vocabulary quiz and he was able to spell "dexterity" correctly.

Kids today.

 

[Terath Ninir]

Well, that and many people misspell it on purpose. It's Teh Cool.

w00t! All teh 1337 uzers spell ti "rouge".

 

[Wycen]

I was in a play by post story at www.planescape-torment.com when they opened their forums and one of the people who I met and is now a friend had a character he posted as rouge modron, to interact with my modron. I started painting everything I came across red and he couldn't figure out why, until finally off screen I told him he probably meant Rogue Modron, instead of red-rouge modron.