Spelling major locations, organizations, and NPCs correctly
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 10:56 am
Disclaimer: This is not targeted at any specific person or posted in reaction to any recent events. This is something that's been on my mind for quite awhile now, as I feel it rather important for immersion in a role-playing enforced text game when speaking in-character.
I'm going to risk coming across as a bit of a jerk here, but please, PLEASE, if you are in a guild or a larger organization, spell that guild or organization correctly. If you are a resident or frequent visitor of a major town, spell that town's name correctly. If you are conducting periodic interactions with a named NPC, spell that NPC's name correctly.
And if you know how to spell something properly and constantly see someone making the same error over and over again... send them a polite TELL to nudge them to the proper spelling.
This has just been really bugging me lately. I've tried to correct it when I see it, but sometimes it's just not possible, I may be controlling an NPC and unable to send tells, or just monitoring the game from my tablet.
I know a large portion of our player base is visually impaired and uses a screen reader to assist with playing. I think that's totally awesome and fully support it. I've spent a significant effort on improving accessibility options and plan to continue to do so. However, some people have the tendency of spelling unfamiliar words such as locations and names phonetically, which is frequently wrong. I'm sorry if this makes me sound like an insensitive jerk, but I don't believe that's any excuse to not know how to spell significant names in CLOK. It's a subject I've brought up with a few of other screen reader users and they've all agreed. Spelling properly CAN be done. It just takes a little effort.
It's H A I B A N, Haiban. Not Hiban, Hiben, Heyben, Hoybon, or anything else.
It's T S E G A I Y A N, Tse Gaiyan, not Say Guyan, Se Gayun, or anything else. (And also not "Gaiyan" by itself.)
And while this doesn't bother me nearly as much since it's entirely OOC, it's J I R A T O, not Jirado or Giratoe or Geraldo.
I'm going to risk coming across as a bit of a jerk here, but please, PLEASE, if you are in a guild or a larger organization, spell that guild or organization correctly. If you are a resident or frequent visitor of a major town, spell that town's name correctly. If you are conducting periodic interactions with a named NPC, spell that NPC's name correctly.
And if you know how to spell something properly and constantly see someone making the same error over and over again... send them a polite TELL to nudge them to the proper spelling.
This has just been really bugging me lately. I've tried to correct it when I see it, but sometimes it's just not possible, I may be controlling an NPC and unable to send tells, or just monitoring the game from my tablet.
I know a large portion of our player base is visually impaired and uses a screen reader to assist with playing. I think that's totally awesome and fully support it. I've spent a significant effort on improving accessibility options and plan to continue to do so. However, some people have the tendency of spelling unfamiliar words such as locations and names phonetically, which is frequently wrong. I'm sorry if this makes me sound like an insensitive jerk, but I don't believe that's any excuse to not know how to spell significant names in CLOK. It's a subject I've brought up with a few of other screen reader users and they've all agreed. Spelling properly CAN be done. It just takes a little effort.
It's H A I B A N, Haiban. Not Hiban, Hiben, Heyben, Hoybon, or anything else.
It's T S E G A I Y A N, Tse Gaiyan, not Say Guyan, Se Gayun, or anything else. (And also not "Gaiyan" by itself.)
And while this doesn't bother me nearly as much since it's entirely OOC, it's J I R A T O, not Jirado or Giratoe or Geraldo.