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[Tulac]

I think that wouldn't work in theory,it doesn't have any logic at all, just think if someone made a review in let's say Icelandic, how many native English, Spanish, German or whoeover, people are there who can translate from Icelandic??? So that idea would basically mean that only English native speakers could exclusively write reviews(BTW some of them have poor grammar too), and Abandonia wouldn't exist because 60% of reviews, or maybe even more are made by people not natively English.
This site would then be called Grammarodonia, the home of grammaticaly correct reviews...

See, all of you are missing the big picture AND the little details. If each version of Abandonia was limited to reviews from people whose first language was the same as the version of Abandonia they are writing for, the quality of reviews would greatly increase. Sure, there are those meatheads who can't write in their own language with 75% grammar efficiency or better, but the number of poorly written reviews will be much lower than before, thus almost completely eliminating the need for a group of grammar checkers.

If you're going to try and learn a new language, you shouldn't even waste your effort trying to make official work in that language until you have mastered it enough. Why? It poses two problems: first, other people have to spend time looking over your work; and second, you really aren't learning anything unless you do it right. Sure, someone could show you what you've done wrong and tell you how to fix it, but time is wasted and it is likely that you won't learn from what has been corrected. If you want to practice a language that you are learning, places such as forums are far better than writing reviews.

I can tell some of you are embarrassed at your lack of fluency in English, but that doesn't mean that having good grammar is a bad thing. Besides, what was the English site made for, if not for reviews in English?

[Havell]

Yes, but not needing a grammar squad would be a small payoff when compared to the sacrifice of so many reviews.

[BeefontheBone]

And the time we're spending on editing would be less than the time wasted in reviewing (and possibly even uploading though probably not) every game several times over - no-one would bother doing that for games they weren't really big fans of if they could just read a review on the english site (or any other language they could read).

[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by einherjar@Mar 8 2005, 11:16 PM
...Besides, what was the English site made for, if not for reviews in English?

Now this might come as a shock to you, but if you haven't noticed:
-the english site has most languages;
-abandonia begun in english only;
-english is currently "the universal language", so we'd have to either translate abandonia to every single language known to men - or some people will have to read foregin languages (usually english); Hence the english site wasn't made for the native english speakers, but for the international comunity (that's why all new review are added to the english site first, and translated into other languages later).

I guess it's difficoult for you to understand such things. I can't see why, but I'll try to explain it all to you in detail if you want to.

Oh and one more thing:

...official work...

:roflol:
Yes! Every review writer here on Abandonia is an official representative of the internationally recognised organization for revival of DOS games (sponsored by the UN).
I'm soooooooooo pround to be an Abandonia official - doing official work in my office (provided by the higher ranking officials of the official abandonians).

[Tulac]

Originally posted by einherjar@Mar 8 2005, 10:16 PM
If each version of Abandonia was limited to reviews from people whose first language was the same as the version of Abandonia they are writing for, the quality of reviews would greatly increase.

Yeah and what, there would let's say 30 games available for download in Croatian version, 30 different games for Slovene and so on...
This site is about Games, and not about reviews, the are what gives this site quality, but are not the prime preoccupation,maany people who visit don't bother to read the reviews, and they would be so confused by your system...
Einherjar are you so blind that you can't see what chaos that would bring??? It seriously makes no sense and even if it would, grammar team is so much simpler...
Man you are stubborn...

[Dino]

I agree with you guys... Einherjar's idea is neither productive nor simple!

[Lizard]

I agree too but 1)I have bad english grammar
2)Even my slovakian grammar is quite terrible
So my opinion can count as quite subjective

Originally posted by Sebatianos+Mar 8 2005, 04:47 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Sebatianos @ Mar 8 2005, 04:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Yes! Every review writer here on Abandonia is an official representative of the internationally recognised organization for revival of DOS games (sponsored by the UN).
I'm soooooooooo pround to be an Abandonia official - doing official work in my office (provided by the higher ranking officials of the official abandonians). [/b]

See, this is one of several reasons why I doubt that you are actually an English professor. You probably only achieved a BS in BS.

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This site is about Games, and not about reviews, the are what gives this site quality, but are not the prime preoccupation,maany people who visit don't bother to read the reviews, and they would be so confused by your system...
Einherjar are you so blind that you can't see what chaos that would bring??? It seriously makes no sense and even if it would, grammar team is so much simpler...
Man you are stubborn...[/quote]

If this site is about games, then why bother having reviews in the first place? And how do you know that people don't read the reviews because they don't want to go blind from the bad grammar? And how do you know they don't read the reviews because they don't want the games they are interested in to be spoiled to them?

[Dino]

Come on, einherjar, it is very sad fact that you have to go through Sebatianos' post trying to find word he mistyped just to prove your point ! :not_ok: Stop being so litigious and chill out!
May I suggest that (considering the fact you're perfect native fluent English speaker) you start spellchecking the reviews and correcting them as you have so much time to quarrel with every person who disagrees with you!