Has gaming ever taught you a new word or how to spell?

[KapnKerfuffle]

I learned the word "ensorcelled" from Daggerfall. It is now my favorite word to this day. Mmmmm, "ensorcelled". Just try it.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Final Fantasy X helped me remember that Anima was Carl Yung's term for feminine and Animus was masculine (Because Anima was a creepy fish-lady summon and her special move was opening a portal to another dimension, wherein resided her reflected half, which was male (like the idea of Carl Yung's Anima and Animus being two aspects of one person, like Yin Yang I guess).

I'm sure there would be games that have taught me words, but I can't remember for the life of me.

 

[Optimystic]

I'm a bit more old school, WoW put the polish on my typing but Diablo 2 is what really built my speed up.

Vocabulary-wise, Magic: The Gathering did a lot of that during my formative years

 

[DestinyCall]

I learned the names of a lot of medieval weapons and armor from various RPGs when I was younger. Probably one of the few kids in my school who could readily identify a halberd.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Victor Charlie is Danger Close, Oscar Mike, Oscar Mike, Oscar Mike!

 

[DazBurger]

XBL taught me English... Yeah -_-

 

[Rhythm]

Egress (it's a fancy way of saying leaving) - Learnt this from Shining force way back on the megadrive. Not only one of my favourite games ever but a teacher to me too ^^

 

[LightspeedJack]

Playing the PS1 Final Fantasys as a kid taught me many words, as well as how to read Roman Numerals.

 

[Lordpils]

Gaming has both expanded my vocabulary and ruined it. Any game with multiplayer ruining it and any game with a good single-player story usually making it better (at keast never making it worse).

So yes.

 

[BigHairyMarty]

I was already relatively good with spelling and vocabulary before, but after playing a whole bunch of old adventure games as a teenager, the amount of things I learned grew, thanks to them being heavily dialogue driven. Some of the early Sierra ones helped increase my typing speed too.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

not as much anymore, but from age 4-16 i'd say i learned a good 50-75% of my spelling and vocab from video games, i was the best speller in my class from playing more text heavy games when i was young rather than the kid games most of my friends played.

hell easily half of my "vocab" tests from high school involved words that i learned from video games, so that was cake.

also typing alot in games has helped me in reading ridiculously fast and kept my typing speed on par.

 

[Chibz]

Gaming taught me to shiv anyone who misspells rogue. Rouge are cosmetics, people. *Shiv, shiv, shiv*

 

[CleverNickname]

I'm German, a good quarter of my English vocabulary probably comes from gaming. Seriously, I played through entire unlocalised games before ever reading a complete novel in English.

And then there is everything you read about games on the internet.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Apparently, it was Pokemon that taught me to read altogether.

 

[soren7550]

It's probably happened with me several times, but at the moment I can't be really bothered to recall what.

 

[Super Toast]

Yep. Typing of the Dead for the win.

 

[Richard Hannay]

- Dues Ex

Its Deus. Funnily enough, my advanced English teacher made the same mistake recently.

Well, "Deus" is latin, so I guess it's outside your teacher's jurisdiction. Or something.

 

[El Poncho]

Improved my general spelling on WoW since I would get called out on it a lot of the time.

Egress (it's a fancy way of saying leaving) - Learnt this from Shining force way back on the megadrive. Not only one of my favourite games ever but a teacher to me too ^^

Haha, I learned that from one of Terry Pratchett's books not that long ago

 

[omicron1]

The ones I specifically remember are Trebuchet, Catapult, Onager, Cavalry, Cataphract, and Centurion.

Guess what game series I played avidly in my youth!

 

[King Kupofried]

Final Fantasy XI taught me a myriad of words...including the word myriad. That plus half of the god damn random mythology that's now embedded in my brain.

Psh, Myraid..the real exciting words come from Chains of Promathia!
Now you too can attempt to explain how things like Om'hpemde, Ul'xzomit and Hu'Xzoi are pronounced!

I'd have to go with XI as well, since practically everything is some sort of real world item using the most obscure name possible or a mythological reference. Well..aside from the above.