Unnamedenemy said:
BrotherRool said:
The writing in Uncharted 3 was the weakest part of the game and much worse than in 1 and 2. => The award show is invalid
Aeonknight said:
Sandor [The Hound said:
Clegane]The clue is really in the name.
The Writer's Guild of America...
Yeah there definitely the experts on the subject....
Says the fellow who can't use the appropriate their/there/they're for the given context.
Don't throw rocks in glass houses bro.
On the other hand when your house has produced Shakespeare, Dickens, Conan-Doyle, Jane Austen, Agathie Christie, HG Wells ...
And on the OTHER hand, when the other house has produced Steinbeck, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Poe, Melville, Thoreau, Jack London...
I'll give you the first four
Incidentally I left off Tolkien, Kipling and CS Lewis, or if we want more modern writers JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman (but he lives over there right?
), Terry Pratchett, Alan Moore...
(Btw I hope I'm not giving offence, this is more a bit of fun than a die hard grudge match
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This guy
Aeonknight said:
BrotherRool said:
The writing in Uncharted 3 was the weakest part of the game and much worse than in 1 and 2. => The award show is invalid
Aeonknight said:
Sandor [The Hound said:
Clegane]The clue is really in the name.
The Writer's Guild of America...
Yeah there definitely the experts on the subject....
Says the fellow who can't use the appropriate their/there/they're for the given context.
Don't throw rocks in glass houses bro.
On the other hand when your house has produced Shakespeare, Dickens, Conan-Doyle, Jane Austen, Agathie Christie, HG Wells ...
Completely irrelevant.
EDIT: Dude, you forgot Mark Twain?!
I know how much everyone loves to poke fun at American stupidity (and articles like this don't help), but if you're going to call someone out when the subject is writing, it'd be best to make sure you have your T's crossed and I's dotted yourself.
maybe made it a little less light hearted. This sort of thing tends to make my i's cross.
I don't enjoy to poke fun at American stupidity, because it doesn't exist. I will become angry and fight against the American public where an advert suggested that a politician adopting chinese and indian children, is not in fact completely awesome, but unamerican (if that's American, then most of you are too good to be american) and it's pretty disheartening that this is the same culture that produces such awesome faith in some people.
But not against stupidity, saying that, I think Britain has got a very strong writing tradition, and it nothing bad if the younger country can't match it. You don't have to be the best at everything
However grammar and spelling are irrelevant to something judging writing. That's an editors role and when you judge writing, it should be on the content and composition of those words. Some of the best authors in the world wrote in a time when there wasn't even a standardised form of spelling and it has not held back their works one bit. Someone criticising a country for not being in a good place to hand out writing awards, isn't weakened by poor spelling.
Ultimately writing is about communication, I'm sure you know the human brain doesn't even look at letter order in a word, or properly read the less important words in a sentence. We should aim to understand and have that as our highest goal, and since you were in the place to correct him, you clearly understood his intentions. I know there is no malice meant and we were having a jibe at your country and that you wanted to defend that is admirable (maybe, I hate nationalism, despite being very nationalistic myself, it's a way to justify killing people and to avoid caring about the deaths of people you don't know), I hope you don't mind, but I feel that it's important we have the right priorities. It's good to have good spelling but it shouldn't be a pivotal part of any well reasoned debate.
