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Rakdos
United States15 Posts
On October 13 2010 14:35 numLoCK wrote: Or a pro athlete, which is common enough... I don't see a problem with this community using the word progamer like it does. It has meaning to us, and so we use it that way. pro athlete right? you just said pro athlete...not proathlete....pro [look at this space!] athlete. | ||
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United States10328 Posts
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Romantic
United States1844 Posts
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Osaka27155 Posts
On October 13 2010 13:15 Rakdos wrote: I'm absolutely terrible with those particular words....and I know it. Then you are in no position to make this thread. | ||
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Romantic
United States1844 Posts
Progamer is distinctly Korean-Starcraft and is currently in wide use. People will not stop using the word. You may as well go attack every new slang term to enter common use. After all, it probably isn't correctly! Especially in a formative sport\community you can't expect to dictate by some sort of authority which word is going to be used. Understandably it might be frustrating when pro-gamer might be correct, but it won't change. Even if you were absolutely objectively correct you likely wouldn't put a dent in common usage. Use pro-gamer if you want, the rest of us will use progamer (as a pseudo-merge of two words and thinking of the Korean commentators saying it if you're anything like me) like we've been doing. Lots of things were once not words, friend Rakdos. | ||
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aimaimaim
Philippines2167 Posts
-teamliquid -starcraft -broodwar -starcraft 2 -proleague -starleague -youtube -liquipedia and the list goes on | ||
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Scias
United States148 Posts
also, i think it's funny that you ask other people to expend "energy" to write a little hyphen or space but you don't want to expend the same little amount of energy to carefully read a single word. p.s. PROGAMER... ESPORTS! | ||
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jalstar
United States8198 Posts
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
I remember, the days of altavista and askjeeves as the two most popular search engines before google existed, and google was just a term for 1x10^100. | ||
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mOnion
United States5657 Posts
On October 13 2010 17:42 ZlaSHeR wrote: I remember, the days of altavista and askjeeves as the two most popular search engines before google existed, and google was just a term for 1x10^100. are you google years old? I believe the order was fire > wheel > google > computers | ||
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SaetZero
United States855 Posts
(regarding progamer or pro gamer or whatever) ...It is not pronounced Progamer all in one fricking breath... I can say "pro gamer" without having to breathe between "pro" and "gamer" :D | ||
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
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EchOne
United States2906 Posts
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Ancestral
United States3230 Posts
It is one word in Korean, based on two loanwords from English, and then people outside of Korea started using it as one word because it was established as a standard. I don't know why you are endeavoring so assiduously to dispute something that is accepted by almost everyone in the community. Your inane arguments also suggests a proper pronunciation, which is even at odds with the way the vast majority of people say it. There are so many issues with syntax in your op, and the layout is horrific to read, so I suggest you take a step back before making purposeless accusations and demanding something be changed that no one else cares about. | ||
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