Rare and their bad spelling

I'm perfectly fine with British English being used and understand (now) that their use of it is not wrong - I just think it should be regionally-based, as with other languages and dialects. It makes sense to appeal to the audience your addressing by using what the language or dialect that they are familiar with, not what you are familiar with.

The whole teacher thing was just to add emphasis of importance, but that was only because I knew going into this that it was a weak argument to begin with. While I'm obviously not entirely familiar with it, I am aware that British English is definitely a thing and I was aware of it being a possibility as I wrote the original post. Still think they should change it, though.

You should be honored that they aren't using the dumbed down American English ;)

@SupriseAutopsy Did I say anything about prioritizations? No, I didn't - I would just prefer things to be fixed quickly, just like anyone else who thinks they've spotted a potential issue, bug, or mistake. I would be fine waiting in this case, provided I knew a fix was coming. Besides, with the Forsaken Shores update, half of the ambiguous words mentioned will likely disappear, along with their loading screens, and replaced with new ones.

Regarding the mispelling of the word misspelling, I had questioned it, but it wasn't flagged either way, and I wasn't going to waste my time looking it up on the dictionary website. If anything, this is really very telling of the quality of the flagging software from Microsoft or that of this site.

Hey @galactic-geek thanks for starting this thread. It is true that sometimes grammatical errors makes it into the game. We try very hard to catch them all but we're all human. Please submit a support ticket when you find one of these errors so we can track and fix them.

Rare is a British company and likes to maintain its heritage by using British spellings. As an American working here, I can understand the confusion, some of the spellings are just weird. But ultimately the spellings and cultural references aren't so different that we can't understand the context, so there's no need to localize.

And to everyone in this thread, let's celebrate our differences and how cool language is to evolve in the way it has, doesn't mean one is better than the other. Although my British co-workers might disagree :P

@waw-gunn Aw man! I was being very careful to watch for things like that too, due to the subject matter - in any case, it was bound to happen eventually; this just goes to show that everybody is human and can make mistakes, even under the best of circumstances. I think the your/you're, its/it's, and then/than are probably the worst grammatical offenders for most people - I see them EVERYWHERE.

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