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TBone-
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2309 Posts
March 30 2012 05:16 GMT
#1
I'm getting quite sick of seeing an infinite amount of the spelling of esports. So far I've seen
esports
Esports
eSports
e-Sports
ESPORTS
ESports
E-sports
e-sports

This is getting quite silly. Can we please find one way of saying it and keep it? esports seems to be the proper one because its actually grammatically correct. But we need to find a standard, as seeing 10 in common usage gets quite annoying.

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Eve online FC, lover of all competition
KhAmun
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1005 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-30 05:18:42
March 30 2012 05:17 GMT
#2
So many different spellings of eSports is ruining ESPORTS.

I guess I'll give a serious answer.
I don't think it matters, it might annoy certain people but the fact is there isn't a golden standard because it's still sort of a vague concept.
Wait for it to grow and get more hashed before expecting a common, universal spelling.
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
March 30 2012 05:19 GMT
#3
It's spelled all the same...

What's the problem?
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
Artifice
Profile Joined May 2010
United States523 Posts
March 30 2012 05:20 GMT
#4
ESPORTS IS BEST ESPORTS

Why does ESPORTS get underlined in red, who wrote this fucking dictionary?
divito
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada1213 Posts
March 30 2012 05:22 GMT
#5
Personally, I prefer "eSports." Grammatically for professional publications, most go with "e-sports" unless starting a sentence. There are the odd ones that use "eSports," but it's hit or miss and I've never really seen anyone use the rest of the ones you put in here.
Skype: divito7
Antimatterz
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1010 Posts
March 30 2012 05:22 GMT
#6
FOR ESPORTS!
"HotBid [11:45 AM]: i dunno i kinda like the big muta shooting smaller mutas out"
EienShinwa
Profile Joined May 2010
United States655 Posts
March 30 2012 05:23 GMT
#7
Holy hell, someone OCD?
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Randomaccount#77123
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States5003 Posts
March 30 2012 05:26 GMT
#8
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Netsky
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia1155 Posts
March 30 2012 05:27 GMT
#9
I think the OP is the same guy that called in at the end of the last Live on Three and was very upset that djWHEAT was wearing jeans at MLG.

Those fucking kids and their dubstep. Jesus christ what is the world coming to.
oBlade
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States6540 Posts
March 30 2012 05:27 GMT
#10
This blog is just meta-esports grammarcrafting.
"I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?" - Andy Dufresne
Syrupjuice
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States173 Posts
March 30 2012 05:28 GMT
#11
Personally, I prefer eSports, however, e-sports would probably be the most 'correct.' I just like the way 'eSports' looks, as opposed to having a lot of capitol letters. It makes it look like an acronym if everything is in caps. Also, the name could act similarly to the way a lot of the apple products title themselves, iPods, iPads, iHome, etc. Yes, those are name brand products and eSports is more of a category, but the word could be approached the same way within publications.
TBone-
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2309 Posts
March 30 2012 05:29 GMT
#12
On March 30 2012 14:26 Barrin wrote:
ya i donno, can never go wrong with ESPORTS though


But when I read that to me its like someone is screaming ESPORTS at me.
Eve online FC, lover of all competition
Randomaccount#77123
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States5003 Posts
March 30 2012 05:31 GMT
#13
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Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9110 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-30 05:32:20
March 30 2012 05:31 GMT
#14
eSpOrTs
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
March 30 2012 05:33 GMT
#15
iSports best maybe
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
slam
Profile Joined May 2010
United States923 Posts
March 30 2012 05:33 GMT
#16
Even more important than that is the pronunciation. The correct way being "eh-sports" of course.
I get it.
CursOr
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States6335 Posts
March 30 2012 05:41 GMT
#17
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

This has a good listing of the various spellings of email, and how they are/were used. Esports is basically the same thing, to distinguish it from regular sports, as email from regular mail...

that being said, I've always liked eSports. I don't know why, it looks like a cool brand name or something. The only variance would be if, it is at the beginning of a sentence, I would do Esports. So the capitalization isn't fuxord.

All caps does have a pretty awesome look to it though.
CJ forever (-_-(-_-(-_-(-_-)-_-)-_-)-_-)
CakeSauc3
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1437 Posts
March 30 2012 05:51 GMT
#18
Haha, I think I've used like half of those spellings for it. I prefer just leaving it as esports or Esports, but it doesn't really matter. Esports is awesome, and so is every way you can spell it :D
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
March 30 2012 05:55 GMT
#19
I use e-Sports because it is what seems to be the official denomination, and also used by KeSPA.
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Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
March 30 2012 05:58 GMT
#20
E-Sports should be the official nomenclature.
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
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