LaurelOneiros
Experienced
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2016
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- 65
I speak specifically about forum-based role-play. When I looked at the threads posted by the evidently more experience users (judging by the numbers associated with their accounts), it confounds me to find a rather great number of spelling or grammatical errors, averaging at 2 or 3 per paragraph.
In practice, such errors does not impede understanding, but having been trained for immaculate spelling and grammar, I can't help but to wince at some outstanding mistakes. So, why is it then that experience users commit and tolerate such errors? Is it because they know each other well enough to understand despite of errors, or is it because they are so eager to go on with their game such that they sacrifice correctness for expedience? (If the latter were so, why does the same apparent carelessness appear even in the very first set-up post of a game?)
In any case, could it benefit new role-players to deliberately tolerate or even commit errors to better adapt to the role-play community? For example, would a lackluster practice in grammar and spelling be a sign of humility or low-expectation of the correspondent?
In practice, such errors does not impede understanding, but having been trained for immaculate spelling and grammar, I can't help but to wince at some outstanding mistakes. So, why is it then that experience users commit and tolerate such errors? Is it because they know each other well enough to understand despite of errors, or is it because they are so eager to go on with their game such that they sacrifice correctness for expedience? (If the latter were so, why does the same apparent carelessness appear even in the very first set-up post of a game?)
In any case, could it benefit new role-players to deliberately tolerate or even commit errors to better adapt to the role-play community? For example, would a lackluster practice in grammar and spelling be a sign of humility or low-expectation of the correspondent?
