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I've noticed the current trend in perfection of the English language. Since I do not see the point of outlining this multiple times, the problem with this is many, which I shall list.
- English itself. English is a fickle beast. The fact is, the use of English varies from place to place, from England to Scotland to Australia to Ghana to Jamaica to America and so on. These areas and many more all have different versions of English and areas inside every English speaking country has in-turn more dialects. In the, say 30 miles between Liverpool and Manchester you have a different dialect. Different dialects say things differently, due to parents, due to culture and to your surroundings. So, you may say something wrong way, or spell something one way, that is different somewhere else an hour or two away.
- British English - People who don't speak it, don't know the differences. Therefore, you can bemoan when they misspell or use grammar wrong, but that's how that person has grown up.
- Users who do not speak English as a primary language, will do things differently.
- Grammar itself is full of little rules people do not know. See here and here
Now, the problem with perfection is, for all intensive purposes, it is impossible. First, who sets the perfection bar? Every can knit pick problems about literally everything. So, instead of a belief of perfection, I follow a belief of satisfaction. If a good movie has a bad scene, I still think its good. A good game may have a bad control, or a bad side-mission or feature, but it is still good. A piece of good artwork by me (that's rare) has more imperfect features than I could count on a hand. But expecting perfection is never good. Expectation is a fickle mistress. It gets you feeling so good about something, and then when something is still very good, but not exactly as you expect it, you feel down and depressed. And, if I'm to be perfectly honest, the things we debate these days aren't exactly the most notable and wiki-changing anyway. Is this considered a sentence? Or does this word need to be technically capitalized? I'm sure there are mistakes in this text (mainly as I haven't proof read it), but will that stop you reading it? If not, then its not the most important issue for the wiki, instead we should focus on the articles missing, or the templates that need updating, etc.
--- A Kind of Madness-- Kingcjc 22:40, March 1, 2011 (UTC)
We are supposed to use British spelling, right? I normally don't complain about the difference, I just change it to British spelling. Lego lord 20:37, March 2, 2011 (UTC)