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

[scrambledeggs]

I always used to think my playing of Diablo 2 was helping me immensely to learn new words from other intelligent online players.

And of course, different weapons and their subtleties. It seems obvious to me the difference between a morning star, a mace and a flail, but you would be surprised how many people don't know..

 

[Dasmaster]

Yes, a damn minecraft server by the name of mine.aperturegames.com drilled the right spelling of aperture into my brain deep enough that not even brain surgery has any hope of removing it.

 

[Dragoniferous]

Zelda Ocarina of Time just helped me to learn English. I played it when I was four or something, with my mother, and she read out the words for me. I got frustrated with how slow that was, so I taught myself to read to play the game.

 

[CHIMP MAGNET]

I all ways remember how to spell SPECIAL thanks to fallout:

S.STRENGTH
P.PERCEPTION
E.ENDURANCE
C.CHARISMA
I.INTELLIGENCE
A.AGILITY
L.LUCK

 

[CHIMP MAGNET]

I all ways remember how to spell SPECIAL thanks to fallout:

S.STRENGTH
P.PERCEPTION
E.ENDURANCE
C.CHARISMA
I.INTELLIGENCE
A.AGILITY
L.LUCK

 

[Anarchemitis]

"Heterodox", which is another way of saying "out of the ordinary". I don't recall where it's from.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

MGS3 taught me alot about the Cold War, like how the Russians had a tank that fired nukes but it got destroyed by a half blind man and a biker chick.

Joking asside.
I know far too much about guns, wars and the military thanks to games. When someone doesnt know the difference between a clip or a magazine, howitzers and mortars, gauge and calibur, I can get more than alittle upset as it is basic knowledge to me.

 

[loc978]

Nope... I read too many books for that... Even Deus Ex Machina was a familiar term before I played a certain awesome stealth shooter.

 

[rabidmidget]

I have played games since a young age, so it has taught me a lot, in fact, I think Pokemon red taught me the word "continue".

 

[Sweet Potato Vines]

My first word as a toddler was Exit, from watching my parents play DooM all the time. So, yes.

 

[Ashcrexl]

from starcraft, i learned carapace.
from final fantasy vii, i learned ether (I did not learn it was R-O-R' but whatever).
from world at war, i learned semper fi.

yeah, i learned a few words. probably more, but i cant remember.

 

[Memor-X]

i mostly learn Japanese from games but there are some words i learned to spell and pronounce, the like Shinra, Mako, Lea Monde, Lich, Ultimcia, Furion.....ok a lot of them are names but remember that in most cases, names are harder to pronounce then words

 

[Manicotti]

Age of Empires taught me most of what I know about military history until the fall of the Byzantine Empire The classes I took on religion and Islamic history were just gravy.

Magic: the Gathering and WoW definitely helped - How could they not?

 

[me.vicky]

Ripped from one of my first ever posts:

English Prof: *is writing on the board* and so we see the subject is me and the verb is calling and the direct object is my mother.
Random guy: Sir, why would you be calling your mother?
EP: I don't know. I want to know her recipe for vichyssoise.
*blank stares from class*
EP: Vichyssoise is a kind of soup. *writes it on board* Wait, that doesn't look right. *tries again* Okay, sorry, I don't know how to spell it.
Me: Vichyssoise is spelled V-I-C-H-Y-S-S-O-I-S-E.
*blank stares from everyone*
EP: Thank you, Victoria. How do you know that?
Me: *bright smile* I learned it from playing a video game.

(in context: Earlier, I turned in a paper I wrote about how we can learn things from video games and he called me into his office to tell me I was, in his opinion, full of shit)

(the game was Animal Crossing: Wild World, by the way)

 

[Amphoteric]

The game "Pharaoh" taught me how to spell Pharaoh

Blitzkreig taught me about WW2

The total war games taught me eveything I know about ancient and modern military history.

Call of duty taught me what a "Klick" is

 

[BRMXJzjsoawk321]

Everquest taught me how to type before I learned to write, that and I could read just about anything (By even middle school standards) by the time I got into school. Yay.

 

[teebeeohh]

i wanted to learn to read when i was 4 because i got a gameboy with two games for Christmas: Super mario something and zelda something. i thought super mario blows and wanted to play zelda but had to learn to read so i enjoyed my sister to teach me how to read(she still holds this over my had AND forced me learn roman numerals when i was 8 out of spite). I could only be bothered to learn english properly(meaning invest time outside of school) after my starcraft clan went multinational and i wanted to understand what those guys were going on about

individual words?
i new how certain insect body parts were called from starcraft

 

[DSK-]

Lots of stuff to be mentioned, but the one thing that is pretty useful is city names in the Civilization games.

I remember recently on the #escapist that someone mentioned they were from Syracuse, NY - which made me think of Syracuse in Sicily.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I'm sure I picked up a lot of spelling from Final Fantasy VII-IX. Other games taught me a bunch of vocabulary words. However, this was all several years ago, so it's all common knowledge to me now and I can't tell you what I learned.