Misspelling rogue as rouge - enlighten me

[Emirikol]

I before e 'cept post-c and in may, holidays and be wrong no matter what you say!

I put my thoughts on this already in the DMG II thread.

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=112601&page=2&pp=20

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[monkeyshines]

I think its just that people make mistakes when typing, and that people notice whene rogue iss mispelled more often because the mispelling forms another word instead of something that is obviously a typo.

I agree - it's probably no more complicated than a common typing error. Things like "teh" and "pwned" started the same way, before people started using them intentionally. When people are typing quickly their fingers just sort of take over, I think. I just did an experiment where I was typing a sentence with rogue in it, and even KNOWING that my whole point was to see if I would type it wrong, I did.

 

[Lazybones]

Its teh most rediculous thred their is.

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After four years grading student essays (community college freshmen, for the most part), nothing about modern grammar and spelling surprises me anymore, whether encountered on the Internet, at the workplace, or in the media.

I find that reading and writing a LOT helps me improve my communication skills. There's also an entertaining short book called Eats shoots and leaves that offers some interesting commentary upon common mistakes.

 

[Orius]

I think most of you guys are overthinking the matter. It just seems to be a common spelling error to me. I've made it plenty of times before myself, not just in typing, but in handwritten game notes. I don't think it's a big deal.

 

[HeavyG]

It's the same reason why 'teh' is such a common replacement for 'the'.

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

 

[Umbran]

I think it has a lot to do with typing. Transposing letters is easy if they are adjacent in the word but typed by different hands. The difference between "rogue" and "rouge" is the difference between "right, left, right" and "right, right, left" in typing order. If the left finger is a little too quick or slow, you can type the wrong word. Same goes for the common "the/teh" misspelling.

 

[Greylock]

I see Rogue mispelled as rouge on every fantasy RPGing board in existence. It's no conspiracy, it's just idiocy.

Now, folks who mispell Dual as Duel, as in "My duel weilding rouge r0x0rz!"? Them is the conspirators.

 

[Captain Tagon]

Especially since it's supposed to be spelled "thief".

One can certainly be glad that isn't the case anymore.

 

[Torm]

Rouge is the character class, and rogue is a spaghetti sauce, right?

 

[Dakkareth]

I'd say a big part of the problem is, that 'rouge' just like 'rogue' is a word. A few minutes ago I misspelled 'just' as 'jsut' due to the finger-sequence mix-up as explained above. 'jsut' however is not an English word, so it gets spotted easily and is a far less common misspelling than those already mentioned in this thread. You don't find those at a single glance.