Has gaming ever taught you a new word or how to spell?
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No! I can spell because when I went to school teachers teaching English knew how to spell and didn't leave mother internet to do the work (didn't have it in the 60's) So I know that I don't 'Loose my keys', I 'lose them', I 'wait in line', I don't 'weight in line' and so on and so forth..............
But no, games haven't taught me to spell.
But no, games haven't taught me to spell.
High-five for Shadow of the Colossus ramming colossus into our heads. Damn if I didn't always forget which letters were doubled before having the type it over and over again.floppylobster said:
I had no idea what an ocarina was before Ocarina of Time. Now I'm much wiser.
Once again with the double-letter thing, Assassin's Creed helped me sort out where the extra S's go and how many there should be.
I'm pretty sure video games explained what an engineer was long before I encountered any in the real world. So that's something.
I'm sure there are more, but those are the first few that jump to mind.
Call of Duty 4 and MW2 taught me the phrases "Oscar Mike" and "Danger Close" and the meaning of "NEST"
Rome Total War taught me the most basic things about ancient Rome and Greece, but it actually did me a disservice; in order to portray the Roman civil wars, they literally make Rome into three separate factions---it would be as if a strategy game depicting America had it divided between Republican America and Democratic America, subject to major electoral results. I actually thought that Romans who wore red were a part of the House of Julii, and those in dark blue were a part of the House of Scipii (which I learned later is a butchering that should be Scipiones)
Mods for RTW, particularly Europa Barbarorum, re-taught me things about Greece and Rome, including proper Latin/Greek/Eastern/Celtic/Germanic/Semitic names for certain towns, cities, military units, and people. It even has a "This Year in History" popup every year for 272 BC through 200 BC or so that provides a bunch of details of what was happening in real history that year that has taught me a whole lot more than any but the most dense and detailed of accounts.
Rome Total War taught me the most basic things about ancient Rome and Greece, but it actually did me a disservice; in order to portray the Roman civil wars, they literally make Rome into three separate factions---it would be as if a strategy game depicting America had it divided between Republican America and Democratic America, subject to major electoral results. I actually thought that Romans who wore red were a part of the House of Julii, and those in dark blue were a part of the House of Scipii (which I learned later is a butchering that should be Scipiones)
Mods for RTW, particularly Europa Barbarorum, re-taught me things about Greece and Rome, including proper Latin/Greek/Eastern/Celtic/Germanic/Semitic names for certain towns, cities, military units, and people. It even has a "This Year in History" popup every year for 272 BC through 200 BC or so that provides a bunch of details of what was happening in real history that year that has taught me a whole lot more than any but the most dense and detailed of accounts.
Empire Total War taught me all the German spellings of Polish towns... don't know if that helped or anything...
And Rome Total Reality, awesome! Chalkispides, argyraspides, toxotes, hippeis etc. etc. way to go make me look high-brow at Classics lectures!
And Rome Total Reality, awesome! Chalkispides, argyraspides, toxotes, hippeis etc. etc. way to go make me look high-brow at Classics lectures!
Gaming has taught me almost everything I know apart from the Theory of Evolution and Religion, which I was taught in school before I got to the heavier games... so yeah all of what I'm typing here is "game-taught". I got a 99% in English because of Pokémon since 2'nd grade... and I was 8 @ the time.. so yeah I've learned a lot from games.
Also Baldur's Gate taught me Math, after my teacher had failed to for 3 years... gotta love DND rules
Also Baldur's Gate taught me Math, after my teacher had failed to for 3 years... gotta love DND rules
In highschool, me and my buddies could top 100 consistently and I think the highest I got was nearly 120, but I don't think I quite reached it. It was in computer class, our teacher made us do this lame typing program for 10 minutes. One day, he realized that 90% of the people weren't actually doing it (he never heard us typing...lol) and so he decided he had to patrol the room to make sure. On one of those days, he saw me and my buddies each over 100 and he flipped out. He wondered if we somehow reset some sort of value in the program so that it made us type faster, so he hopped on and only cleared 60 wpm. We explained that we were gamers, and when we went home, we played games where if we took too long typing, we'd get killed, and refusing to shorten every word like so much of the internet seems to do, we just got really good at typing. I think he learnt something that day...Retal19 said:
But OT: I also learnt many words, or memorized the spelling of difficult words thanks to gaming. I can't think of any off the top of my head, but gaming teaches you all sorts of things.
since english is my second language, i can say, gaming has taught me a lot and usually (sadly?) nothing dirty.
in a related story, now that i watch Yahtzee, my cussing abilities are better than ever
and usually (sadly?) nothing dirty. in a related story, now that i watch Yahtzee, my cussing abilities are better than ever
That's the same thing that happened to me, I used to just peck but now I type so fast I think my laptop will catch fire just from typing so fast.drbarno said:
I learned how to type quickly using habbo hotel when I played that.
What was I thinking when I played that? Thankfully it wasn't for long.
Although I did play runescape and I am playing WoW as well. I bet people who like to instant message a lot will be slowly getting better at typing.
What was I thinking when I played that? Thankfully it wasn't for long.
Although I did play runescape and I am playing WoW as well. I bet people who like to instant message a lot will be slowly getting better at typing.
Assassin's Creed taught me that 'assassin' is spelt with two lots of double S's. Though it doesn't help that I usually abbreviate it to AssCreed.
Chrono Trigger
We had a root word test Chrono means time so I remember Chrono Trigger was a time traveling epic
Lets just say I passed that test
We had a root word test Chrono means time so I remember Chrono Trigger was a time traveling epic
Lets just say I passed that test
