One thing that really cheeses me off about Dota players...

One thing that really cheeses me off about Dota players...

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:05 am

... is the way some of them mispronounce "Power Treads" as "Power Threads" . THREADSWTF?! That doesn't even make any sense! Where did the extra H come from? Why threads?! Are you thinking of pursuing a career as a seamstress so that you need some POWERFUL THREADS that don't snap?!

Get it right.

It's treads .

TREADS .

I've also heard some people, when talking about it: "Helm of the Denominator ". As opposed to a Helm of the Numerator, I suppose. You'll know which item to use if a nasty fraction comes along.

Also, "Dissembler". No, that's not wrong, right? Well, it is if you tell someone to "use meat hook and then dissembler them."

There are lots more where these came from, and THEY ALL BOTHER ME.

That said, ^_^.

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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:24 am

Not another rant thread. I'd expect this thread to be locked soon.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:25 am

oou... thnkz....
i owaz make the mistake on Threadz....
thnz gain...=D
hope 2 not piss u off when i postz...
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:29 am

@rambol: Why, are they not allowed?
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:29 am

Sometimes, it's a typo, but in other cases, they really think it's how it's spelled. When they do this, don't mind it but since you're cheesed off, you should tell them how it's really pronounced in a non-provocative way.

It's the same in my local net cafe, a lot of them used to call it Maelstorm. Then I told them, it's Maelstrom, not Maelstorm, look at it carefully, I know it's confusing.

Eventually, hey, they all started calling it Maelstrom but since this is the web, you're going to have to deal with it, or correct them. I suggest the latter, though.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:30 am

I've these type of topics a million time at least ...

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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:31 am

The default state of the internet is " broken " and any attempts to rectify this situation are entirely futile. Sad but true. ;_;

I tried to bash the habit out of my little cousin, but his reaction was something like "ah whatever, you understand me, right?" =_=;
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:39 am

IIRC someone(I think it was Ghost) already made a thread addressing the issue of misspellings of terms in DotA.

No offense, but stop trying to change the world.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:42 am

It's odd how people opt to say "no offense" rather than simply refraining from giving offense. ^_^;;
I don't recall this thread, but maybe it was before my time. I suppose most people don't feel as strongly about this as I do. v_v; Malapropisms are evil, and DOTA players seem particularly prone to them, probably because the majority of them are middle school students/ESL and there are just way too many polysyllabic/uncommon words in there. XD

Although I really don't think "treads" is that difficult a word.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:45 am

Ok what is the use of this?? I'm just curious because it doesn't really matter because TREADS is a DoTA term which in fact could be really RELATED with the word threads which could be threads in a forum OR threads meaning some kind of string!!!!!
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:50 am

Hahaha... You are so right!

But the thing is, most of the players dont know how to speak/write decent english without litttle mistakes like that
Maybe you should establish language courses

Afterall thats very little compared to other things...

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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:51 am

there was already a thread about treads, bumping it because so many people can't read
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:57 am


Uh... Treads is an actual word. And it doesn't mean Threads. ^_^;; Or string, or rope, or any variants thereof. >_<

Out of a vague, masochistic curiosity, I'm just curious to know everybody's reading habits? How often do you read a book, or just a newspaper?

edit: I'd just like to note that you are automatically excluded from any criticism if English is your second language. ^u^;;
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:58 am

i believe that SHE is a part time teacher..
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:10 am

Answer: Not everyone is ENGLISH. Close
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