Spelling test

edited April 2009 in General
Which do you use?

Video game
Videogame
Vidjeo game
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I personally do not like videogame! It looks funny as one word. What do you all use?
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  • edited April 2009
    It's the first one. Question is, why is it a big deal?
  • edited April 2009
    Yeah, it's the first one. I've never really even heard any of the others.
  • edited April 2009
    What about video-game? I write it as 2 words. But you of all people should understand how quickly neologisms are formed from commonly used word pairs. a video game as a descriptive term could include Scene It, a board game (boardgame?) in which you watch videos to play the game. Videogame would be its own word specifically referring to interactive digital games played on home or hand-held consoles or a computer. It is gaining a more specialized meaning and is therefore worthy of becoming its own unique word.
  • edited April 2009
    Well, when I read news I frequently see it as videogame, and I don't like the way it looks. I always use the first one too, but I was starting to wonder if others use other spellings more.

    Edit: To Adam's post, it really should have its own unique word or spelling, but I've been using video game for so long I don't have anything else I like.
  • edited April 2009
    Vidya game. /thread
  • edited April 2009
    Correction: vidyagaem.
  • edited April 2009
    I always say vidja games, actually...
  • edited April 2009
    I usually just call it "Mario"
  • edited April 2009
    haha, I think I like that overgeneralization best.
  • edited April 2009
    Murder simulator.
  • edited April 2009
    In my state, we just call everything "Coke."
  • edited April 2009
    Your state also loves guns.
  • edited April 2009
    When I hold you in my arms/ and I feel my finger on your trigger/ I know no one can do me no harm.

    OR

    We also ride horses to school and work, and there's a stable at every building.
  • edited April 2009
    I own a pretty nice pair of cowboy boots with a matching 10 gallon hat.
  • edited April 2009
    Basically anyone who spells it videogames is a hip trendy media magazine that is sooooo kawaiii ^_________^

    but yes, video game.
  • edited April 2009
    Mish42 wrote: »
    I own a pretty nice pair of cowboy boots with a matching 10 gallon hat.

    But can you saddle a horse?
  • edited April 2009
    I like where this is going.
  • edited April 2009
    Well, I prefer to ride bareback anyway.
  • edited April 2009
    Well OK, but be sure to keep a firm hand on the rein.
  • edited April 2009
    Mish42 wrote: »
    I own a pretty nice pair of cowboy boots with a matching 10 gallon hat.

    That was my whole school every day for the 4+ years I lived in Plano.
  • edited April 2009
    Holy ass-balls on a stick, dude. Plano? EEW.
  • edited April 2009
    Yeah, I lived there from '94-'99 or so. Good times, except for the monstrous amount of drugs the schools there seem to do.
  • edited April 2009
    Mmm... Drugs... I mean, uh... What a despicable act! Yes, quite right! And um, yes.

    I once dated a girl from Plano. Worst relationship of my life. Thus, because of my one experience and without basing anything on anyone else's experiences because I'm the only person in the world who matters, Plano is a steaming pile of disgusting evilness that needs to be taken out back and shot. Repeatedly. In the FACE.

    ...BLAM!
  • edited April 2009
    Well, not the nonissue drugs like marijuana. I mean the bad drugs that will fuck you up, like heroin and cocaine. When I lived in Plano we were on Dateline for being the heroin capital of the country.

    I remember a 6th grader getting busted for possession when I was in 7th grade. After that they periodically brought in drug sniffing dogs to make rounds while kids were in class.
  • edited April 2009
    How did you not get caught? Because I've always thought that if someone on the OB was a hard drug user/dealer as a kid, it was you. And John Filleau.
  • edited April 2009
    Do I come off as a drug user/dealer?
  • edited April 2009
    Serephel wrote: »
    Well, not the nonissue drugs like marijuana. I mean the bad drugs that will fuck you up, like heroin and cocaine. When I lived in Plano we were on Dateline for being the heroin capital of the country.

    I remember a 6th grader getting busted for possession when I was in 7th grade. After that they periodically brought in drug sniffing dogs to make rounds while kids were in class.

    ...HOLY SHIT. O_O
    I mean, yeah, I remember the drug busts in high school, but sixth graders? With cocaine?
    Jesus Christ on a piece of toast sold by some diner in the middle of Route 66!

    ...At least Chris Hansen didn't come to Plano, although he IS my favorite part of Dateline. ^_^
  • edited April 2009
    I don't remember what he was busted with, the teachers kept it all secret. It could've just been pot. When I talk about heroine/cocaine I'm talking about Plano in general. I moved in the middle of 8th grade to bumfuck Iowa, so I completely avoided the high school scene, where it was apparently more available.

    And Rob, do I really come off as a drug user? I drink a lot and smoke cigars, but that's about it. I'm a straight arrow.
  • edited April 2009
    I other words: he's boring. You see kids. Stay away from frugs and you will be just like Ryan. you'll have a huge cock. but you'll be boring and lame and never getting totally laid.
  • edited April 2009
    Goddamnit I hate you.