Guild Wars 2

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@Pyro
I hope I speak for everyone when I tell you Pyro you need to stop using colloquial phrases. Not everyone here is a native English speaker. It also includes cliche’s into the writing. Second, you not explaining yourself or correcting me was to the detriment of the entire conversation. In what body of science do they allow colloquial slang to permeate their writing. Either write to be understood or don’t get surprised when people misunderstand you. Proofread your kitten kitten.

@TyPin
Your ability to make selective inferences, and then criticizes others selective inferences is interesting.

Either way the conversation is at a standstill.

Daniel Handler.4816:

@Pyro
I hope I speak for everyone when I tell you Pyro you need to stop using colloquial phrases. Not everyone here is a native English speaker. It also includes cliche’s into the writing. Second, you not explaining yourself or correcting me was to the detriment of the entire conversation. In what body of science do they allow colloquial slang to permeate their writing. Either write to be understood or don’t get surprised when people misunderstand you. Proofread your kitten kitten.

@TyPin
Your ability to make selective inferences, and then criticizes others selective inferences is interesting.

Either way the conversation is at a standstill.

It wouldn’t be if people would have read my post….

Simple balancing concept really. Since mesmers save moa for lich just don’t use lich and the mesmer doesn’t use moa ( .. because these 2 elites have equal cds this is completely guranteed balanced {and there is no reason to change it.*})

Daniel Handler.4816:

@Pyro
I hope I speak for everyone when I tell you Pyro you need to stop using colloquial phrases. Not everyone here is a native English speaker.

That’s ok, I’m not honestly going to get tied up about 100% clarity for everyone reading everything I post here.

Daniel Handler.4816:

It also includes cliche’s into the writing.

…what?

Daniel Handler.4816:

Second, you not explaining yourself or correcting me was to the detriment of the entire conversation.

Eh, I let it stand because your interpretation at that point was essentially the same as what I meant. It was only at this later point that the interpretation started to lose the original meaning.

Daniel Handler.4816:

In what body of science do they allow colloquial slang to permeate their writing.

Last time I checked, and correct me if I’m wrong, I was writing replies on an online informal forum about a video game. If I were writing an article for a peer reviewed journal, a formal mission statement, a proposal for funding, a results and analysis document of a test, or any other sort of official document, you can safely bet that I would be demonstrating a substantially different writing style.

None of those apply here. Trying to state that my writing style is inappropriate for a video game forum because it wouldn’t be appropriate for an official document is equal parts absurd, amusing, and foolish.

Fay.2357:

Daniel Handler.4816:

@Pyro
I hope I speak for everyone when I tell you Pyro you need to stop using colloquial phrases. Not everyone here is a native English speaker.

That’s ok, I’m not honestly going to get tied up about 100% clarity for everyone reading everything I post here.

Daniel Handler.4816:

It also includes cliche’s into the writing.

…what?

Daniel Handler.4816:

Second, you not explaining yourself or correcting me was to the detriment of the entire conversation.

Eh, I let it stand because your interpretation at that point was essentially the same as what I meant. It was only at this later point that the interpretation started to lose the original meaning.

Daniel Handler.4816:

In what body of science do they allow colloquial slang to permeate their writing.

Last time I checked, and correct me if I’m wrong, I was writing replies on an online informal forum about a video game. If I were writing an article for a peer reviewed journal, a formal mission statement, a proposal for funding, a results and analysis document of a test, or any other sort of official document, you can safely bet that I would be demonstrating a substantially different writing style.

None of those apply here. Trying to state that my writing style is inappropriate for a video game forum because it wouldn’t be appropriate for an official document is equal parts absurd, amusing, and foolish.

Trying to state that using colloquial slang makes your writing unclear in parts. For Native and Non-Native English speakers.

“Why is he talking about damage control, that refers to public image?”

“IDK Bob he is saying ‘damage’ and that only means one thing in the context of Gw2.”

And if you aren’t going to get tied up on clarity then why even write things? Especially given how often you have responded negatively to unclear comments.

It’s a mistake to think pulling more and more formalism out of thin air is actually going to bring clarity to this discussion.

ASP.8093:

It’s a mistake to think pulling more and more formalism out of thin air is actually going to bring clarity to this discussion.

This is true. Too much of the discussion is based in emotion. There is no formal structure for expressing anger or annoyance. It was my hope we could reduce the amount of people feeling misunderstood but whatever. People will feel there point was misunderstood regardless of what syntax they use.

The CD of Moa and Lich are equal. The skills should then technically be equal in strength. Is there anything about them that is unequal to you TyPin?

Daniel Handler.4816:

@TyPin
Your ability to make selective inferences, and then criticizes others selective inferences is interesting.

Now would you like to back up that claim? What are my selective inferences?

Daniel Handler.4816:

Either way the conversation is at a standstill.

Agreed.

Daniel Handler.4816:

The CD of Moa and Lich are equal. The skills should then technically be equal in strength. Is there anything about them that is unequal to you TyPin?

Interesting. Is the discussion not at a stand still now? And equality with 2 skills that do totally different things is a much more complex issue, than you try to make it to be. However, it doesn’t make sense to keep discussing my initial suggestion. Everything has been said, I believe.

Fay.2357:

Actually, I meant damage control in the colloquial sense; ‘to do damage control’. The situation is already in the kittenter, you’re not gonna be able to really salvage it, but you can do a bit of damage control.

I just didn’t have the heart to correct kent on that one.

Well, okay. I’ll leave it at that (I wanted to do that earlier already^^). This discussion made me avoid the forum lately anyway (not mainly due to your replies)…

Also, in almost all matches so far this week (I hoped to record encounters with Lichs), Necromancer didn’t use Lich in my presence. And I wasn’t running Moa^^