Curse

Darth The Xx · Apr 20, 2009, 06:29 AM // 06:29

Seriously this may seem like a small thing, but it really gets on my nerves whenever I see Saviour spelt without the U. To me it looks like a spelling mistake, whats the harm in adding a little option?

What do u guys think?

Hyper.nl · Apr 20, 2009, 06:36 AM // 06:36

It seems that both spellings are okay. The Savior spelling is more common in the United States and the Saviour spelling more common in the United Kingdom.

xron · Apr 20, 2009, 06:40 AM // 06:40

Even though I can not see this happening, I would love for 'savior' to be spelt correctly with the U

I could go on a long rant about the British creating the language and therefore our spelling is correct etc etc but... I'll leave that for another day :P

Arduin · Apr 20, 2009, 08:15 AM // 08:15

What about Armor and Favor, want that changed too?

I don't think we could have an 'option' of the way a word is displayed. To make this viable, Anet would need to implement another Language: - American English and British English.

t00115577 · Apr 20, 2009, 08:29 AM // 08:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by obsidian ectoplasm

Who honestly cares?

Obviously the OP, talk about a stupid question.

On Topic: Agree with OP, it should be spelled with a U as thats its correct spelling.

Gift3d · Apr 20, 2009, 08:57 AM // 08:57

It's spelled Savior, and that's how it's gonna stay. Suck it up.

MirkoTeran · Apr 20, 2009, 08:59 AM // 08:59

Yeah... this is top priority bug-fix!

And lets change dye to colour while we're at it.

/sarcasm

Kiva-chan · Apr 20, 2009, 09:55 AM // 09:55

Unless you're kinda new to the internet, you should know that American-English usually takes dominance over British-English.

What Arduinna said is right.
To solve your problem, a new language would need to be implemented
and for what exactly? 60% more U's?

I've always typed using British-English because that's what I was taught.
However, I was also taught the american spellings for certain words.
So it doesn't bother me at all to read a few words that have a letter missing. o.O

Something that does bother me though, is the american formatting of dates...
MM/DD/YY is just ...strange. Especially when the day shown is before the 12th, because then I can easily mistake it for a british formatted date =P
(...and no, I'm not suggesting to change date formatting, lol)

**Marty Silverblade** · Apr 20, 2009, 10:25 AM // 10:25

This really doesn't bother me in the least (I use Australian English), and no offence, but I don't think anyone other than you cares at all either.

xron · Apr 20, 2009, 10:39 AM // 10:39

In some cases Wiki decides not to recognise words spelt the British way, and will only accept it Americanised.

This kinda annoys me more than reading it spelt differently... as I automatically spell it with the 'u' and would like it to realise that it's the same thing.

I noticed it used to redirect to the page more in the past but dunno, seems to fail more nowadays

subarucar · Apr 20, 2009, 11:31 AM // 11:31

If your going to call a language English, it should be British English, as in, English that comes from England. /end rant.

I dislike the the American way of spelling, the date formatting is annoying aswell. Since they have so many other languages in game, why not add the two variants of English for GW2?

Also another word for the list, "customized"

Shayne Hawke · Apr 20, 2009, 11:36 AM // 11:36

This will not improve the game in the slightest.

/notsigned

BlueNovember · Apr 20, 2009, 11:41 AM // 11:41

This will improve the game a lot

/signed

Raccoon · Apr 20, 2009, 12:03 PM // 12:03

This will bring people back to the game.

/signed

Ghostcell · Apr 20, 2009, 01:01 PM // 13:01

i use Australian English (same as British) and honestly, it's just a game,
i don't care if its spelled savior or saviour, flavour flavor, honor honour, centre center, metre meter.
its the same difference, doesn't effect the game play at all.

Lathari · Apr 20, 2009, 01:10 PM // 13:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arena Net General Contact Info

ArenaNet, Inc.
227 Bellevue Way NE #75
Bellevue, WA 98004

Washington = USA

USA = American English

To 59 million of you, "savior" might look mispelled.
To 251 million of us, it looks correct.

Really... it's the same. They're both acceptable spellings somewhere.

I'm just curious as to how many of you realized I misspelled "misspelled".

Eragon Zarroc · Apr 20, 2009, 01:17 PM // 13:17

it's already spelled correctly ;-) why change what is already correct =D

REDdelver · Apr 20, 2009, 01:55 PM // 13:55

Its beyond my thought process to understand why people let the smallest things in life bother them. Last time i checked, there are so many huge problems in the world to be brought to attention......yet a certain word spelling variation eats at your soul. Whats really bothering you?

Crassus Praetor · Apr 20, 2009, 01:58 PM // 13:58

I've thought about this before and while it would be nice to have the English (*cough* original) spelling, I couldn't really see it adding much to the gaming experience.

Never the less if it were an option in GW I would have it ON.

I would also be using the option to stop people using 'then' in place of 'than'

MithranArkanere · Apr 20, 2009, 02:56 PM // 14:56

Guild Wars' English is American English, like its Spanish is the Spanish from Spain.
You can't pretend them to add ne language version for every quirk in every language in any region of the world.

You can always try Bork! Bork! Bork! if you hate so much like American English.