I tried subtly joking about it in the other rogue/rouge thread. Wasn't picked up on. So much for passive aggressiveness :D.

People make typos and stuff, that's fine, it was just odd that it was being done so consistently that it seemed people actually thought that was how it is spelt.

Similarly, I've also seen "tounge". <shudders>

For example:

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pussycatdolls/beep.html

Nowadays some people use "rouge" in jest, as regards spelling in general, English is not everybody's native language, so on an international forum like the internet mistakes easily happen, it's not something I get my knickers in a twist over, as long as someone can communicate their thoughts and I know what they mean, it's good enough for me.

I think that the main reason is what you already wrote in the first sentence. Lot of people are not native English speakers and the knowledge of English really varies. For such people (and I'm one of them) the difference between "rogue" and "rouge" is not so obvious especially when word is written and not spoken. Please also note that those words which you mentioned are somehow correct English words (although meaning is different) so that spelling checkers will just not mark them. I wouldn't blame such people (yes - also because I'm one of them) - polite corrections for most annoying errors are welcome in my opinion.

The second reason could be dyslexia - but I really hate this word since in my country it was abused at some point - it was REALLY easy to be diagnosed as dyslexic and it was abused. At some point it was quite fashionable to be dyslexic.

The third reason is of course laziness - and for this there are no excuses.

You see, that's the reason. You grew up with the language - you began to learn writing after speaking it was perfectly natural to you. So yes, I'm fairly sure writing part was never quite as important as the speaking bit. We, filthy foreigners, do it the other way around when it comes to english - first we learn to write, then to speak. It seems quite logical that our grammar will be quite often better than that of a native speaker.

That being said, I'm grammar nazi for Czech as well. I'm from a family of two librarians :D

Nobody mentioned the infamous "Baulder's Gate", yet? I'm disappointed! XD

I can't +1 you enough.

(definatly not dissapoint.)

I used to rage at improper apostrophe use (it's/its, who's/whose). I calmed down once I got a smartphone and saw the wonders of autocorrect. I still don't like crappy spelling in articles and such, but I can sympathize with people who use a phone to type and can't be bothered fighting autocorrect. I have a 10" tablet and it's still too small for my fingers; navigating to the offending word and correcting a stray apostrophe is more work than typing a complete sentence.

I'm fine with slang. What still gets me is txtspeak in forum posts. If you don't pay for your posts on a per-symbol basis, spell the fuck out of "people" and "because".

Pretty much this. People learn language norms by using the language (reading, writing, speaking, listening).

My language skills are a mess. My written English is passable; my written Russian is way better, because I've read many more exemplary works in Russian than in English (Soviet dead-tree books vs various e-speech). My spoken English is bad, because I live in Russia -- it's horribly accented, and if *you* speak English (natively or not), there's a 50% chance you have an accent I can't parse at all. My spoken Russian is a crime against humanity, except when I did voice work as a student and used canned sentences -- then it was awesome.

My mom and dad were a programmer-mathematician by way of economics and an auto mechanic / insurance salesman / typographer. Both had near-perfect spelling (I had, and still have, a better eye for typos).

Here's a fun one that I saw thanks to a Burnie Burns:
People on twitter often use the word defiantly instead of definitely. Can be pretty funny if you take their typos literally. https://twitter.com/search?q=defiantly&amp;src=typd

My two most hated are:

Ect. instead of etc.

Awe and awsome for aww and awesome

EDIT: fixed one word hurr durr

Mine are "per say" instead of "per se" and the infamous "could/should/would of" instead of "have".

I also hate people using "literally" for emphasis/exaggeration, while the word is supposed to mean that something happened exactly like that (without exaggeratiojn). But I heard that this now has become accepted. Not by me.

http://theawesomer.com/how-to-use-the-word-literally/62936/

By the way, Neverwinter Nights wiki has an entry for rouge
http://nwn.wikia.com/wiki/Rouge

In Dunne, mouse Atredies and mouse Arkaunen thought again'st a load. Them their are many Sardocars welping the Arkaunen in Harrakis.
But their wear Freemen raiding Sendwarms culling then Shy-Hu-Loud.

:D

Some people definatly can't spell. But that's okay - as long as there posts are readable. It could of been worse...

+1 for making me laugh this morning.

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edit: ha, just found it: http://steamcommunity.com/app/303870/discussions/0/35220951682533992/#p1

It's not just non native English speakers, us natives do it too though for different reasons. Here's my situation, not sure if any other GoGer's have this same experience.

While English is my mother language, the only time I use English in my daily life in on the forums here, no joke. Mandarin Chinese is my second language and that is the langauge I use every day. What happens is when I speak in Chinese, I think in Chinese, when I speak in English, I think in English but sometimes my brain doesn't always handle the transition well. Sometimes when I post here, a bit of Chinese grammar or wording can slip in or I'll think something in Chinese, try to express it in English and just end up screwing it up completely. Because of this, I usually end up editing a lot (yes, "a lot"not "alot") of my posts because some of the things I type feel like Chinglish.