2011-08-28, 02:10 PM
Chocolater Wrote:I made a simple mistake within my post, I tend to do that quite often for some funny reason. Sure, i speak in Singlish too, which Singaporean doesn't? The main point I'm trying to put across is that players simply cannot converse with each other on an understandable level of English. Take for example, an excerpt from a sentence of a random player i was talking to just hours ago. " u humji dog no parent teach? Wuji come meet at xxxxxxx" .(We were training together at MP3 when a raider decided to target our map) Well for the benefit of those who don't understand the Chinese dialects, by calling someone "Humji", you are calling him a coward "Wuji" on the other hand, I do not understand. I agree that there are some people in MapleSea who can speak somewhat decent English like me, but they are few and far between among the throngs of kids who pick up the curses and vulgarities daily and put them into use. I apologise to anyone who is offended, but i still uphold my stand that most MapleSea players simply cannot speak proper English.
It seems to me that the main problem is actually not about using proper English, but rather it's the behaviour of the community itself. That's what one thing that I don't like about it too. They've been used to using vulgarities frequently until other people/friends learn from it. In this current society, many kids have been exposed to all these that they've been using it without realizing that it is rude, etc. I tend to reprimand my younger cousins whenever they uses them.
As for the broken english problem.. it can't be helped. I'm satisfied as long as it is understandable.. =)
(Off-Topic: IDK WHY BUT I AM QUITE IRRITATED WITH THE IMPERFECT ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS IN MAPLESEA. (eg. Neo Tokyo, "Mental Capacity" scrolls, etc.) It feels good that they are copying and pasting GMS-translated core content whenever its possible. lol.)