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It's pretty futile to try and assign a specify quantity to that kind of characterization in the first place, but if you're going to, 5% is way too small. Look at any language that has been around for a thousand years, and that should be plain.

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Communication between groups is necessary. That is why we have conventions. A convention concerning basic rules of language use is handy so that when I write, making allowances, I can expect others, making allowances, to understand. I see this convention as a lingua franca, nothing more. We should encourage those who are not comfortable using this convention to become so. But we should not discourage those who are fortunate enough to have other languages and dialects from keeping them as they also accept the convention. We should not tell them their grammar is "wrong."

The problem with talking about a convention as a description of some ideal is that people forget that it is merely a convention. That one group of people agrees to drive on the right or the left of the road is arbitrary. There is nothing inherently better about one way or another.

I would like to urge everyone interested in language and especially those who feel compelled to promote some ideal of usage to remember that with regard to language use, it can only be convention. The nature of language prevents it from ever being more than that.

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Aran has coined a verb (to averse) which is a legitimate act in English, but in this case unnecessary since the adjective averse already exists. It's also consistent with say, disinclined or indisposed. I think it's a more complex error than mere orthography, and refelcts the sophisticaion of Aran's grasp of the tongue.
(I hope that metaphor gives you some horrible mental images.)

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The only problem is, is that this is an enormous undertaking. It will require much patience and time, which i doubt anybody has (I, as somebody who is undertaking about four very big projects at once, knows what he is talking about).

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Jeff doesn't appear to be aversed to marketing other people's games (though I don't know if that still applies). I'm not sure if this works vice versa, with other people marketing Jeff's games (in other languages).

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played boa for the xtra scenarios but soon found it boring because tm's scenarios gave you too much power after finishing so like a spoiler

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Interestingly, not the same people who reach for their calculators when they have to divide four pi by four.

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Note that Spiderweb Software is based in North America, not Europe. It will thus remain 'scenarios'.

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Slavery was prevelent in pre-colonial Africa. European merchants took advantage of this and purchased trade items (Africans) from other Africans. Seeing a good solid buyer, coastal African leaders began extracting as much of this resource as they could from the inner parts of Africa. This was not racist.

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Originally written by Salmon Sushi:
I think we're supposed to register additional UBB accounts for voting purposes.
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Nope. "Register here", in effect, means "post here", and by posting anything besides "I want to vote" in fact makes the registration process harder.

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